"Personal religion is derived from ecstasy, theology from mathematics, and both are to be found in Pythagoras."
— Pythagoras

January 1, 1970

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MysticsPhilosophers from GreeceMathematicians from GreeceFounders of religionsPresocratic philosophers
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Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book One, Part I, Chapter III, Pythagoras, p. 36