11 ideas
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
7905 | The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha] |
7904 | The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha] |