Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Proclus

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Proclus Lycius, also called Proclus the Successor, Proclus the Platonic Successor, or Proclus of Athens, is one of the most influential philosophical commentators of antiquity and is regarded by some scholars as the greatest Neoplatonic philosopher of the 5th century AD. The title of Successor was given to the head of the School of Plato in Athens and signified that Proclus was the successor of his predecessor and also the latest successor of continuous Platonic scholarship going back to Plato, the founder of the School of Plato in Athens.

Philosopher | February 8, 412 - April 17, 485

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A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

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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.

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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.

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[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.

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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.

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Wherever there is a number, there is beauty.

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The light of the Sun is the pure energy of intellect.

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