Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
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570 BC - 495 BC
Samos, Greece
"Pythagoras was unwilling to profess to be a wise man, but acknowledged himself, "a lover of wisdom." "
"Much learning does not teach sense. Otherwise, it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, or again Xenophanes and Hecataeus."
Book & Page: Guthrie,W.K.C. A History Of Greek Philosophy, Vol.1 p.412
#Quotes"'At Olympia, Milo is said to have stepped into the course carrying a live ox on his shoulders. Which then of the two would you prefer to have given to you—bodily strength like that, or intellectual strength like that of Pythagoras?"
Book & Page: Cicero, Selected works (Penguin) p.46
#Praise"'Nor is it only reason and arguments that have brought me to this belief, but the great fame and authority of the most distinguished philosophers. I used to be told that Pythagoras and Pythagoreans—almost natives of our country, who in old times had been called the Italian school of philosophers—never doubted that we had souls drafted from the universal Divine intelligence."
Book & Page: Cicero, Selected works (Penguin) p.46
#Quotes"Some, thinking that the "one" convertible with "being" is the same as the "one" which is the principle of number, were divided into contrary opinions. Pythagoras and Plato, seeing that the "one" convertible with "being" did not add any reality to "being," but signified the substance of "being" as undivided, thought that the same applied to the "one" which is the principle of number. And because number is composed of unities, they thought that numbers were the substances of all things."being," but signified the substance of "being" as undivided, thought that the same applied to the "one" which is the principle of number. And because number is composed of unities, they thought that numbers were the substances of all things."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.894
#Quotes"Aristotle speaks there according to the opinion of Pythagoreans, who thought that evil was a kind of nature; and therefore they asserted the existence of the genus of good and evil."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.894
#Quotes"Thus the Pythagoreans teach that perfection consists in three things, the beginning, the middle, and the end."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.1779
#Quotes"In this way an infinite number of vices are opposed to one virtue, e.g. temperance or fortitude, according to the infinite number of ways in which the various circumstances of a virtue may be corrupted, so that the rectitude of virtue is forsaken. For this reason, the Pythagoreans held evil to be infinite."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.4258
#Quotes"Pythagoras held the place of punishment to be in a fiery sphere situated, according to him, in the middle of the whole world: and he called it the prison-house of Jupiter, as Aristotle relates (De Coelo etMundo ii). It is, however, more in keeping with Scripture to say that its beneath the earth."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.9416
#Quotes"For this reason, too, certain philosophers, who held that the movement of the heavens will never cease, maintained that human souls will return to mortal bodies such as we have now---whether, as Empedocles, they stated that the soul would return to the same body at the end of the great year, or that it would return to another body; thus Pythagoras asserted that "any soul will enter anybody," as stated in De Anima i, 3."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.9089
#Quotes"Wherefore, as Augustine says (De Civ. Dei viii, 2), Pythagoras was unwilling to profess to be a wise man, but acknowledged himself, "a lover of wisdom." Hence, a religious does not violate his profession if he is not perfect, but only if he despises to tend to perfection."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.6487
#Facts"And so it was that among the Gentiles, Pythagoras and Socrates, who were teachers of great excellence, were unwilling to write anything. For writings are ordained, as to an end, unto the imprinting of doctrine in the hearts of the hearers."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.7248
#Facts"Our life, said Pythagoras, is like the great and crowded assembly at the Olympic Games. Some exercise the body in order to win glory in the contests; others bring merchandise there to sell for profit. There are some - and these are not the worst -whose only aim is to observe how and why everything is done, and to be spectators of other men's lives, in order to judge and regulate their own"
Book & Page: Michel de Montaigne, p.241
#Quotes"Pythagoras borrowed the doctrine of metempsychosis from the Egyptians, but it has since been accepted by many nations, and notably by our Druids:"
Book & Page: Lucretius pdf p.50
#Facts"Much learning does not teach sense. Otherwise, it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, or again Xenophanes and Hecataeus."
Book & Page: Guthrie,W.K.C. A History Of Greek Philosophy, Vol.1 p.412
#Quotes"'Nor is it only reason and arguments that have brought me to this belief, but the great fame and authority of the most distinguished philosophers. I used to be told that Pythagoras and Pythagoreans—almost natives of our country, who in old times had been called the Italian school of philosophers—never doubted that we had souls drafted from the universal Divine intelligence."
Book & Page: Cicero, Selected works (Penguin) p.46
#Quotes"Some, thinking that the "one" convertible with "being" is the same as the "one" which is the principle of number, were divided into contrary opinions. Pythagoras and Plato, seeing that the "one" convertible with "being" did not add any reality to "being," but signified the substance of "being" as undivided, thought that the same applied to the "one" which is the principle of number. And because number is composed of unities, they thought that numbers were the substances of all things."being," but signified the substance of "being" as undivided, thought that the same applied to the "one" which is the principle of number. And because number is composed of unities, they thought that numbers were the substances of all things."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.894
#Quotes"Aristotle speaks there according to the opinion of Pythagoreans, who thought that evil was a kind of nature; and therefore they asserted the existence of the genus of good and evil."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.894
#Quotes"Thus the Pythagoreans teach that perfection consists in three things, the beginning, the middle, and the end."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.1779
#Quotes"In this way an infinite number of vices are opposed to one virtue, e.g. temperance or fortitude, according to the infinite number of ways in which the various circumstances of a virtue may be corrupted, so that the rectitude of virtue is forsaken. For this reason, the Pythagoreans held evil to be infinite."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.4258
#Quotes"Pythagoras held the place of punishment to be in a fiery sphere situated, according to him, in the middle of the whole world: and he called it the prison-house of Jupiter, as Aristotle relates (De Coelo etMundo ii). It is, however, more in keeping with Scripture to say that its beneath the earth."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.9416
#Quotes"For this reason, too, certain philosophers, who held that the movement of the heavens will never cease, maintained that human souls will return to mortal bodies such as we have now---whether, as Empedocles, they stated that the soul would return to the same body at the end of the great year, or that it would return to another body; thus Pythagoras asserted that "any soul will enter anybody," as stated in De Anima i, 3."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.9089
#Quotes"Our life, said Pythagoras, is like the great and crowded assembly at the Olympic Games. Some exercise the body in order to win glory in the contests; others bring merchandise there to sell for profit. There are some - and these are not the worst -whose only aim is to observe how and why everything is done, and to be spectators of other men's lives, in order to judge and regulate their own"
Book & Page: Michel de Montaigne, p.241
#Quotes"Wherefore, as Augustine says (De Civ. Dei viii, 2), Pythagoras was unwilling to profess to be a wise man, but acknowledged himself, "a lover of wisdom." Hence, a religious does not violate his profession if he is not perfect, but only if he despises to tend to perfection."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.6487
#Facts"And so it was that among the Gentiles, Pythagoras and Socrates, who were teachers of great excellence, were unwilling to write anything. For writings are ordained, as to an end, unto the imprinting of doctrine in the hearts of the hearers."
Book & Page: Thomas Aquinas pdf p.7248
#Facts"Pythagoras borrowed the doctrine of metempsychosis from the Egyptians, but it has since been accepted by many nations, and notably by our Druids:"
Book & Page: Lucretius pdf p.50
#Facts"'At Olympia, Milo is said to have stepped into the course carrying a live ox on his shoulders. Which then of the two would you prefer to have given to you—bodily strength like that, or intellectual strength like that of Pythagoras?"
Book & Page: Cicero, Selected works (Penguin) p.46
#Praise
