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Pythagoras
«Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India»
Author: Ludwig von Schroder
| Keywords:
attributed, derived, doctrines, India, mathematical, philosophical, Pythagoras
«Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.»
«The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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daughter-in-law, in-law, lay aside, modesty, Pythagoras, skirt, The Daughter in Law
«Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Copernicus, flesh, Galileo, Luther, misunderstood, Pythagoras, Socrates
