Top 100 Pythagoras's Quotes
#1. Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.
Martin Rees
#2. the clerk in the ministry to correct this, he pulled out his original typescript. "See for yourself, madam. Quod erat demonstrandum it is Missing," he said, as if he'd proved Pythagoras's theorem, the sun's central position in the solar system, the roundness of the
Abraham Verghese
#3. Government exists only for the good of the governed.
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#4. Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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#5. The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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#6. As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
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#7. The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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#8. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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#9. It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, and lazy recreation. The same I may say of closet prayer.
Thomas Brooks
#10. Number is the within of all things.
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#11. The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. I'll say this for the celestial spheres, though: great acoustics. We're talking Platonic ideals here. Pythagoras would have smashed his corny little harp across his knee if he'd heard it.
Ian Tregillis
#13. Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!
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#14. 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
#15. Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
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#16. Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
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#17. God built the universe on numbers.
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#18. We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
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#19. None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.
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#20. Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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#21. Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
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#22. Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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#23. The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
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#24. No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
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#25. Repect yourself ... The rest will follow.
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#26. Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
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#27. If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
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#28. Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
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#29. It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
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#30. 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 intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.
Iamblichus
#31. As great Pythagoras of yore,
Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
And hearing the hammers, as they smote
The anvils with a different note,
Stole from the varying tones, that hung
Vibrant on every iron tongue,
The secret of the sounding wire.
And formed the seven-chorded lyre.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#32. There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,
the one of grief, the other of deceit.
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#33. The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment
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#34. We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.
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#35. Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it's own function and character, contributes to the whole.
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#36. The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.
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#37. Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.
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#38. Step not beyond the beam of the balance.
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#39. Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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#40. The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.
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#41. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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#42. Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.
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#43. Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased.
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#44. There's a biological basis for music, and that biological basis is the similarity between music and speech," said Purves. "That's the reason we like music. Music is far more complex than [the ratios of] Pythagoras. The reason doesn't have to do with mathematics, it has to do with biology.
David Byrne
#45. Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
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#46. He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.
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#47. It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.
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#48. As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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#49. Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!
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#50. The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
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#51. There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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#52. 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 we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.
Johannes Kepler
#54. Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
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#55. It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit
the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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#57. Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.
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#58. Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?
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#60. Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!
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#61. I'm traveling 90 kilometers per day as usual, but I only get 37 kilometers closer to Schiaparelli because Pythagoras is a dick.
Andy Weir
#62. Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.
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#63. A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.
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#64. Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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#65. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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#66. Above all things, respect yourself.
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#67. Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
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#68. Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
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#69. Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.
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#70. When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
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#71. 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 passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind ...
Porphyry
#72. We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
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#73. People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?
Matt Haig
#74. Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.
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#75. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
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#76. Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
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#78. Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
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#79. Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed with thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage - and, foolish as I am, taught thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope.
Herman Melville
#80. The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear
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#81. Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
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#83. Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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#84. Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.
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#85. Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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#86. One must choose in all things a mean just and good.
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#87. A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
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#88. Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.
Richard Taverner
#89. A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.
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#90. Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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#91. To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!
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#92. Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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#93. Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
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#94. You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.
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#95. Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
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#96. In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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#97. Like most religious mathematicians from Pythagoras to Godel, Bolzano believes that math is the Language of God and that profound metaphysical truths can be derived and proved mathematically.
David Foster Wallace
#98. Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
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#99. Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.
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#100. There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
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