Tao Te Ching
Pythagorus
(of Samos)
570 – 495 BCE
"The most influential philosopher of all time"
The ancient Greeks called Pythagoras “the philosopher.” He discovered the numerical relationship between musical notes, the “music of the spheres,” gave geometry its main form, the Pythagorean theorem, and the name cosmos to the world. An elemental influence on Plato (The Republic considered based on the vegetarian, communistic community Pythagoras established) and the first to teach that the world is round and revolves around the sun, his influence extends to all of Western philosophy, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, mathematics, architecture, sculpture, art and music. Bertrand Russell considered him the most influential philosopher of all time.
Lineages
Greek Scientists
Eras
Western
Egyptian Civilization (3150 – 305 BCE)The Axial Age, “The Great Leap of Being” (800 – 200 BCE)
Sources
Golden Verses of Pythagoras Χρύσεα
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Quotes by Pythagorus (18 quotes)
“The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.”
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“Beans have a soul.”
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“Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.”
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“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”
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41. Distilled Life
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“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
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“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”
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2. The Wordless Teachings
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“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
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“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
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53. Shameless Thieves
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“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
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38. Fruit Over Flowers
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“The wind is blowing, adore the wind.”
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34. An Unmoored Boat
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“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
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15. Inscrutability
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“No man is free who cannot command himself.”
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“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”
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36. The Small, Dark Light
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“Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.”
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“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”
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60. Less is More
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“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
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“Before all, be real. Only the truth gives the power of Orpheus’ lyre to the word.”
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Quotes about Pythagorus (7 quotes)
“Pythagoras changed philosophy into the form of a liberal doctrine, considered its principles in a more exalted manner; and investigated its theorems immaterially and intellectually, invented a treatise of such things as cannot be explained in geometry, and discovered the constitution of the mundane figures.”
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“Pythagoras is one of the most interesting and puzzling men in history… a combination of Einstein and Mrs. Eddy, he was intellectually one of the most important men that ever lived… I do not know of any other man who has been as influential”
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“What is imagination? Psychologists tell us that it is the plastic or creative power of the soul; but materialists confound it with fancy... Imagination, Pythagoras maintained to be the remembrance of precedent spiritual, mental, and physical states, while fancy is the disorderly production of the material brain.”
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“Pythagoras, like Saint Francis, preached to animals. In the society that he founded, men and women were admitted on equal terms; property was held in common, and there was a common way of life.”
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“A mystery enwrapped Pythagoras, the preacher of vegetarianism; no philosopher since him has pondered on the essence of the world, without recurring to his teaching. Silent fellowships were founded, remote from turmoil of the world, to carry out this doctrine as a sanctification from sin and misery.”
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“Pythagoras… a man of rare knowledge, most skilled in all manner of wise works, a man who had won the utmost wealth of wisdom; for whensoever he strained with all his mind, he easily saw everything of all the things that are”
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“Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today—you shall be sure to be misunderstood but is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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