Pythagoras Quotes

“Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? … It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.”
― Plutarch, Moralia

“Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.”
― Johannes Kepler

“. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to the sovereignty of numbers. Many of our psychologists, sociologists, economists and other latter-day cabalists will have numbers to tell them the truth or they will have nothing. . . . We must remember that Galileo merely said that the language of nature is written in mathematics. He did not say that everything is. And even the truth about nature need not be expressed in mathematics. For most of human history, the language of nature has been the language of myth and ritual. These forms, one might add, had the virtues of leaving nature unthreatened and of encouraging the belief that human beings are part of it. It hardly befits a people who stand ready to blow up the planet to praise themselves too vigorously for having found the true way to talk about nature.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times' will take. Many Years, and perhaps Centuries must pass, before the current will acquire a Settled direction... yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistic Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1,500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, July 16 1814}”
― John Adams, The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams

“There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.”
― Pythagoras

“what we call birth is
when something first changes out of its former condition,
and what we call death is when its identity ceases;
things may perhaps be translated hither and thither;
nevertheless, they stay constant in their sum total”
― Ovid

“The Demiurge has his henchmen: called Archons, who insert strange thoughts into people’s minds. The Demiurge wants total control of the Earth’s planetary destiny and is the greatest threat to humanity. ‘All secrets are in Saturn,’ declared Pythagoras, possibly implying that the Demiurge had made his hoe one the Planet Saturn. Origen of Alexandria (188 CE – 254 CE), also known as Origen Adamantius (‘man of steel’), was one of the earliest and most important Christian scholars. He stated plainly that Yaldabaoth (one of the names of the Demiurge) was the Planet Saturn.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“What is man? and what difference is there between him and other plants, between him and all the other animals of the world? None, obviously. Fortuitously placed, like them, upon this globe, he is born like them; like them, he reproduces, rises, and falls; like them he arrives at old age and sinks like them into nothingness at the close of the life span Nature assigns each species of animal, in accordance with its organic construction. Since the parallels are so exact that the inquiring eye of philosophy is absolutely unable to perceive any grounds for discrimination, there is then just as much evil in killing animals as men, or just as little, and whatever be the distinctions we make, they will be found to stem from our pride's prejudices, than which, unhappily, nothing is more absurd.

If all individuals were possessed of eternal life, would it not become impossible for Nature to create any new ones? If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it, and that she cannot achieve her creations without drawing from the store of destruction which death prepares for her, from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real; there is no more veritable annihilation; what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finis, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter, what every modern philosopher acknowledges as one of Nature's fundamental laws. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another, and that is what Pythagoras called metempsychosis”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.”
― Gian-Carlo Rota

“And Pythagoras is reported to have been a disciple of Sonches the Egyptian arch-prophet; and Plato, of Sechnuphis of Heliopolis; and Eudoxus, of Cnidius of Konuphis, who was also an Egyptian.
[Stromata, 1.15]”
― Clement of Alexandria

“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They lie deep in the structure of the physical universe, and were seen by the Egyptians as the principles controlling creation, the principles by which matter is precipitated from the cosmic mind.

Today scientists recognize the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and the Golden Proportion as well as the closely related Fibonacci sequence are universal constants that describe complex patterns in astronomy, music and physics. ...

To the Egyptians these numbers were also the secret harmonies of the cosmos and they incorporated them as rhythms and proportions in the construction of their pyramids and temples.”
― Jonathan Black, Mark Booth

“The outsiders stood always in awe in front of what they had surnamed the Celestial City with Mighty Walls. The great mystery that cloaked its very foundations kept impelling the youth of Crotona, as well as those of the adjacent cities, to seek admittance. In spite of the difficult rules of the Master, curiosity goaded many to venture inside its secrecy, with a passionate aspiration to discover the unknown. Yet, to enroll, young men and women should be introduced by their parents. Sometimes, it was one of the assigned Masters of the Pythagorean Society who assumed the introduction. At the massive wooden gated entrance, one could admire the marble statue of Hermes-Enoch, the father of the spiritual laws. A cubical stone formed its stall where a skillful hand had carved the words: No entry to the vulgar”
― Karim El Koussa, Pythagoras the Mathemagician

“There are, as always, social and political aspects to seeing nothing as well. Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. found it perfectly natural to count slaves as 'nothing,' . . . Slaves, like machines today, were simply taken for granted. These days, we take for granted everything from homeless people sleeping in the street to telephones and computers. We have learned to renormalize these things as part of 'nothing.' Whatever is standard becomes effectively invisible.”
― K.C. Cole, The Hole in the Universe

“If you want to know the secrets of existence, do the math. There is no other way. There is only one truth, the truth of mathematics. It is the infallible, absolute truth. All truth-seekers come in the end to mathematics. Pythagoras got there first. It’s time for everyone else to join him and hear the Music of the Spheres. Are your ears attuned to the perfect notes of the universe? Only the gods can hear the divine music. Are you one of them?”
― Thomas Stark, The Sheldrake Shift: A Critical Evaluation of Morphic Resonance

“You saw a Sun, but I see a cloud.
You see thunder, by the way, it was lightening!”
― Petra Hermans

“All of the central ideas that mark religious and spiritual thinking can be translated into exact mathematical concepts and made compatible with science. Mathematics is true religion and spirituality, as Pythagoras understood.”
― Thomas Stark, The Sheldrake Shift: A Critical Evaluation of Morphic Resonance

“Meritocracy seeks to find the violinist in everyone, and to create a human orchestra capable of playing the Pythagorean Music of the Spheres, an orchestra in which humanity has become divine and can hear the music normally available only to God.”
― Adam Weishaupt, OWO

“No one need ever again be embarrassed when they mention religion. It’s not some mad, deluded flight from reality. On the contrary it is ABSOLUTE reality, thanks to mathematics. Had mathematics not had any religious elements, we would be atheists. That’s not how it turned out. The soul is the basis of mathematics – exactly as Leibniz, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, stated. Descartes, Plato and Pythagoras – three other towering mathematicians and philosophers – would have had no difficulty in agreeing with him. Join Team Logos, Team Mathematics. Mathematics is the one, true, divine subject.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“Numers have nothing to do with planets, horoscope or astrology. If you want to learn numerology in true sense, do not mix numerology with astrological concepts.”
― Senior Numerologist Mahaveer Sanglikar

“Ancient people, like the Greeks, had a deep fascination with numbers. Could it be that in difficult times numbers were the only constant thing in an ever shifting world? To the Pythagoreans, an ancient Greek sect, numbers were tangible, immutable, comfortable, eternal, more reliable than friends, less threatening than Apollo and Zeus.”
― Clifford A. Pickover, The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics

“Pythagoras wanted to hear the Musica Universalis – the Universal Music, the Music of the Spheres. The greatest minds have always understood that they can listen to the universe. The universe is a life form, a living organism. Like each of us, it has an immaterial mind and a material body. Like us, it has an intelligence and a language. Like us, it speaks. It’s up to us to listen. If we do, everything will change. Isn’t it time for humanity to undergo its great metamorphosis? Don’t you want to embark on this greatest of all journeys?”
― Steve Madison, When the Universe Spoke to Humanity: Humanity Before the Fall

“Even before the sun shone on us, even before there was air to breathe, the square of the hypotenuse was equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.”
― Malba Tahan, The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

“De Eiffeltoren is niet Eiffels toren; het is de toren van Koechlin, zijn assistent, die Eiffel met veel moeite heeft overgehaald zich aan het project te verbinden. Maurice Koechlin, net als Eiffel ingenieur, zette de eerste schetsen op papier en ontwierp vervolgens de constructie. Nu heeft iedereen het over Eiffel, maar u zult zien dat het monument over een paar jaar de Koechlintoren wordt genoemd. Zullen we wedden? De ingenieur is een Zwitser, misschien dat hij het daarom prettig vindt op de achtergrond te blijven. Aanvankelijk wilde hij zich aan de geneeskunst wijden en studeerde hij anatomie in Zürich; bij het ontwerp van de toren had hij de ligging van de spiervezels op het femur, het dijbeen, voor ogen, een heel licht, sterk bot, en tevens het grootste in het menselijk lichaam. Welnu, het femur was een bot waardoor ook Pythagoras was geobsedeerd; hij vond een relatie tussen dit bot en de muziek, en daarom tussen het bot en de getallenleer die in het universum verborgen ligt. Zodoende raakten onze occultisten er tenslotte van overtuigd dat Koechlin een volger is van Pythagoras, die het geheim heeft verraden. De toren heeft altijd symbool gestaan voor het centrum van de wereld; de occultisten zien deze ijzeren toren daarom als een vals centrum dat moet worden ontmaskerd.”
― Pablo de Santis