Plutarch Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Moving, Moon

• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Long, Sparta

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.433

• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

  Plutarch

  God, Belief, Opinion

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