As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 35
Μέγιστον τόπος· ἅπαντα γὰρ χωρεῖ
Frag. B 4, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.
The Other World (1657)
“All things, at least those we know, contain number”
The Life of Pythagoras (1919)
Context: 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 even, and a third, derived from a mingling of the other two kinds, the even-odd. Each of its subspecies is susceptible of many very numerous varieties; which each manifests individually.
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67
“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
“What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty.”
Introduction to Book 1, as quoted/translated by Edward Rosen, Nicholas Copernicus on the Revolutions (1978) ed. Jerzy Dobrzycki, Edward Rosen.
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Compensation
Context: The universe is represented in every one of its particles. Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff; as the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis, and regards a horse as a running man, a fish as a swimming man, a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man. Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part all the details, all the aims, furtherances, hindrances, energies, and whole system of every other. Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world, and a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course and its end. And each one must somehow accommodate the whole man, and recite all his destiny.
The world globes itself in a drop of dew.
