Pythagoras
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and has been credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him. He was born on the island of Samos, and traveled, visiting Egypt and Greece, and maybe India, and in 520 BC returned to Samos. Around 530 BC, he moved to Croton, in Magna Graecia, and there established...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionMathematician
numbers built universe
God built the universe on numbers.
kissing blow enemy
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
circles last-words
Don't disarrange my circles!
wind adore
The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.
communication speak
Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.
inspirational-life silence silent
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
mean men birth
most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
men may needs
He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.
atoms despise
Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
men
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
animal
Abstain from animals.
thinking done ought
Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.
men roots numbers
Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
should great-things
You should make great things, not promising great things.