15 ideas
5896 | Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Pythagoras, by Porphyry] |
3051 | Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius] |
7485 | For Pythagoreans 'one' is not a number, but the foundation of numbers [Pythagoras, by Watson] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
3053 | Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius] |
5244 | For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
644 | For Pythagoreans the entire universe is made of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
638 | Pythagoreans define timeliness, justice and marriage in terms of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
553 | Pythagoreans think mathematical principles are the principles of all of nature [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
554 | Pythagoreans say things imitate numbers, but Plato says things participate in numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
375 | When musical harmony and rhythm were discovered, similar features were seen in bodily movement [Pythagoras, by Plato] |
16589 | Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol] |
16651 | God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol] |
7467 | The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras [Pythagoras, by Watson] |