12 ideas
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
23903 | When we admire a work, we see ourselves as its creator [Weil] |
5996 | Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA] |
23901 | Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [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] |
23904 | The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil] |
23902 | I attach little importance to immortality, which is an undecidable fact, and irrelevant to us [Weil] |