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Ideas of Pythagoras, by Text
[Greek, c.570 - 510 BCE, Born on Samos. Founded community at Solon in S.Italy. Reputation surrounded with legends. Died at Metapontum.]
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p.19
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553
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Pythagoreans think mathematical principles are the principles of all of nature [Aristotle]
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p.24
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554
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Pythagoreans say things imitate numbers, but Plato says things participate in numbers [Aristotle]
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p.62
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375
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When musical harmony and rhythm were discovered, similar features were seen in bodily movement [Plato]
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p.131
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5896
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Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Porphyry]
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p.141
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7467
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The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras [Watson]
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p.343
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3051
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Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string [Diog. Laertius]
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p.351
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3053
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Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God [Diog. Laertius]
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p.402
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638
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Pythagoreans define timeliness, justice and marriage in terms of numbers [Aristotle]
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p.409
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644
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For Pythagoreans the entire universe is made of numbers [Aristotle]
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28
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p.182
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5244
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For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same [Aristotle]
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Ch.8
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p.245
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7485
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For Pythagoreans 'one' is not a number, but the foundation of numbers [Watson]
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