Wherever there is number, there is beauty. Proclus More Quotes by Proclus More Quotes From Proclus This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; She brings light to our intrinsic ideas; She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth. Proclus ignorance life science A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride. Proclus philosopher philosophy needs Everything is overflowing with Gods. Proclus It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible and unimaginable should ever remain veiled. And so the guilty man, who fortuitously touched on and revealed this aspect of living things, was taken to the place where he began and there is for ever beaten by the waves. Proclus taken math life The light of the Sun is the pure energy of intellect. Proclus light energy sun Wherever there is a number, there is beauty. Proclus math numbers In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and yet do not work by method ; thus Cratistus in our time was able to obtain the required result from first principles, and those the fewest possible, but it was his natural gift which helped him to the discovery. Proclus hard-work discovery science [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it. Proclus simple discovery believe
