Top 100 Quotes About Pythagoras
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#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. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
Lord Byron
#17. 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 with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
G.H. Hardy
#18. 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 reason or the soul.
James Mark Baldwin
#19. 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 is cleverly constructed.
Richard Digance
#20. Pythagoras said that the universal Creator had formed two things in His own image: The first was the cosmic system with its myriads of suns, moons, and planets; the second was man, in whose nature the entire universe existed in miniature.
Manly P. Hall
#21. And Pythagoras is reported to have been a disciple of Sonches the Egyptian arch-prophet; and Plato, of Sechnuphis of Heliopolis; and Eudoxus, of Cnidius of Konuphis, who was also an Egyptian.
[Stromata, 1.15]
Clement Of Alexandria
#22. If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
Eric Temple Bell
#23. CLOWN. Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.
William Shakespeare
#24. Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Plutarch
#28. Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#29. 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 put it on again with her petticoat
Michel De Montaigne
#30. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Pythagoras
Did stagger us
And our reason encumber
With irrational number
Steven Cushing
#32. 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 at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#33. I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
Thomas Browne
#34. There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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#35. Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
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#36. 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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#37. Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
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#42. Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
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#43. Above all things, respect yourself.
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#44. Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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#45. 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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#46. Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.
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#47. Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!
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#49. 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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#50. Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.
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#51. Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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#52. Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
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#58. In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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#59. Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
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#60. You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.
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#61. 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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#62. Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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#63. To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!
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#64. Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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#66. A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
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#67. One must choose in all things a mean just and good.
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#68. Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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#69. Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.
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#70. Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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#72. 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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#73. The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear
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#74. Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
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#75. A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.
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#76. Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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#77. 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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#78. Repect yourself ... The rest will follow.
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#79. No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
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#80. 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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#81. Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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#82. Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
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#83. Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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#84. None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.
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#85. We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
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#86. God built the universe on numbers.
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#87. Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
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#88. Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
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#89. Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!
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#90. Number is the within of all things.
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#91. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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#92. The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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#93. 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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#94. The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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#95. Government exists only for the good of the governed.
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#96. The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.
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#97. There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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#98. The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
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#99. 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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#100. As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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