18 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] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
7485 | For Pythagoreans 'one' is not a number, but the foundation of numbers [Pythagoras, by Watson] |
12729 | The cause of a change is not the real influence, but whatever gives a reason for the change [Leibniz] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
3053 | Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
5244 | For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
554 | Pythagoreans say things imitate numbers, but Plato says things participate in numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
644 | For Pythagoreans the entire universe is made of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
375 | When musical harmony and rhythm were discovered, similar features were seen in bodily movement [Pythagoras, by Plato] |
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] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |
7467 | The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras [Pythagoras, by Watson] |