Pythagoras Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
— Plutarch
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Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and…
— Porphyry
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
— Thomas Browne
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Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first…
— Johannes Kepler
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In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin…
— G. H. Hardy
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We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known…
— Daniel Tammet
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About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,…
— John Aubrey
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No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more…
— Iamblichus
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I think it is important that people be made aware that the vegetarian movement has a venerable history behind it. It didn’t spring full-blown from…
— Rynn Berry
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Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to…
— Michel de Montaigne
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To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.
— John Diamond
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Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with…
— Rajneesh
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If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
— Eric Temple Bell
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all…
— Seneca the Younger
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Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with…
— James Mark Baldwin
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The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle…
— Richard Digance
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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to…
— John Milton
Who Wrote These Pythagoras Quotes
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