Xunzi / Hsun Tzu (312 – 230 BCE)
“Music embodies an unchanging harmony, while rites represent unalterable reason. Music unites that which is the same, rites distinguish that which is different; and through the combination of rites and music the human heart is governed.”
- From Hsün Tzu’s Basic Writings (chapter/section 20), translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963, 1996).
