14 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] |
| 20725 | The idea of duty in one's calling haunts us, like a lost religion [Weber] |
| 20722 | Acquisition and low consumption lead to saving, investment, and increased wealth [Weber] |
| 20724 | When asceticism emerged from the monasteries, it helped to drive the modern economy [Weber] |
| 20717 | Capitalism is not unlimited greed, and may even be opposed to greed [Weber] |
| 20718 | Modern western capitalism has free labour, business separate from household, and book-keeping [Weber] |
| 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] |
| 20719 | Punish the heretic, but be indulgent to the sinner [Weber] |