Animal Quote by Diogenes Laertius

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…

— Iamblichus

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter…

— James Mark Baldwin

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

“So that human beings were miraculous indeed - conscious creators, walking this new world like fresh young gods, wielding immense alchemical powers. So that…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Though his health and family had been broken in the process, he'd found his purpose in life — to share the ancient key discovered…

— Melissa Coleman

“For every field planted and grown, for every tree rekindled from their rotting root beds, comes that ancient instinct, that hunger for acceptance, for…

— T.S. Tate

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a…

— Arthur Koestler

And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars,…

— Wendy Mass

“Such was, and is, and will be the nature of the universe, and it isn’t possible that things should come into being in any…

— Epictetus

“He must turn to something solid, because if he didn't, who knew where his mind or his soul could blow away to, like a…

— M.L. Stedman

“We are, after all, an animal that was brought into being on this biosphere by these processes of sun and water and lead. And…

— Gary Snyder

“Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as…

— Marguerite Yourcenar