Porphyry quotes

Porphyry quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind...”
-- Porphyry

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“The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.”
-- Porphyry

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“He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.”
-- Porphyry

Source : Porphyry (1823). “Select works of Porphyry; containing his four books On Abstinence from Animal Food; his treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by T. Taylor; with an appendix, explaining the allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses, by the translator”, p.126

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