A quotation from Pythagoras

Quotation

Above all things, reverence yourself.
— Pythagoras

Philosophical Context

Pre-SocraticPythagorean

Pythagoras

c. 570 BCE – c. 495 BCE

Number is the language of the cosmos. He built a life around that belief.

Pythagoras saw mathematics not as a tool but as truth itself. The harmony of a lyre string, the orbit of the stars, the structure of the soul; all governed by number. He left Samos for Croton, where he founded a community that was part school, part religion, part political movement. His legacy is split between the theorem that bears his name and the mystical idea that understanding the world means hearing its music.

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Number is the language of the cosmos. He built a life around that belief. Pythagoras saw mathematics not as a tool but as truth itself. The harmony of a lyre string, the orbit of the stars, the structure of the soul; all governed by number. He left Samos for Croton, where he founded a communit…

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