Philolaus

"Philolaus by Carl Huffman, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"Fragment 4. This is the state of affairs about nature and harmony. The essence of things is eternal; it is a unique and divine nature, the knowledge of which does not belong to man. Still it would not…"

"the commanding and self-begotten container of the eternal duration of mundane concerns."

"Fragment 2. All things, at least those we know, contain number; for it is evident that nothing whatever can either be thought or known, without number. Number has two distinct kinds: the odd, and the …"

"Fragment 3. The harmony is generally the result of contraries; for it is the unity of multiplicity, and the agreement of discordances. ."

"There is a fire in the middle at the centre, which is the Vesta of the universe, the house of Jupiter, the mother of the Gods, and the basis coherence and measure of nature."

"The ancient theologists and priests... testify that the soul is united with the body as if for the sake of punishment; and so is buried in body as in a sepulchre."