Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.
Iamblichus
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.
Number is the within of all things.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings.
Time is the soul of this world.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
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