Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Pythagoras, Mark Jago and Victor Velarde-Mayol

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

5896	Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Pythagoras, by Porphyry]
	Full Idea: Pythagoras advised above all things to speak the truth, for this alone deifies man.
	From: report of Pythagoras (reports [c.530 BCE]) by Porphyry - Life of Pythagoras §41
	A reaction: Idea 4421 (of Nietzsche) stands in contrast to this. I am not quite sure why speaking the truth has such a high value. I am inclined to a minimalist view, which is just that philosophy is an attempt to speak the truth, as fishermen try to catch fish.

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

3051	Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string.
	From: report of Pythagoras (reports [c.530 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 08.1.11