Pythagoras Quotes

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

~ Pythagoras

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

~ Pythagoras

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

~ Pythagoras

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.

~ Pythagoras

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

~ Pythagoras

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

~ Pythagoras

Number rules the universe.

~ Pythagoras

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

~ Pythagoras

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

~ Pythagoras

Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

~ Pythagoras

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

~ Pythagoras

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

~ Pythagoras

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

~ Pythagoras

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

~ Pythagoras

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

~ Pythagoras