Apollo Quote by Iamblichus

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly…

— Diogenes Laertius

“Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himself.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The outsiders stood always in awe in front of what they had surnamed the Celestial City with Mighty Walls. The great mystery that cloaked…

— Karim El Koussa

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on…

— Herman Bavinck

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

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

— Jonathan Swift

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

— Clement of Alexandria

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe,…

— Samuel Johnson

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the…

— Joseph Addison

“And thus was their burial of Apollo, god of the sun.”

— Kendare Blake

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who…

— Lord Byron

“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the…

— Peter Sloterdijk