Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.