Number (n.) is the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
Number (n.) seems a trifle — telling one, two and three apart — yet it draws the soul toward being, though no one uses it rightly.
Number (n.) turns perception and memory into an account: an animal that cannot count may be brave or moderate, but never wise.
Number (n.) is the essence of harmony, and harmony is the basis of the revolutions of the cosmos and of the soul of man.
Number (n.) is the cure for boundless ignorance: whoever never works out the amount and number of anything counts for nothing and amounts to nothing.
A Number (n.) is all or nothing: add anything to ten or take anything away and ten is simply gone. Images live by the opposite law.
Number (n.) follows from there being a one at all: one and being make two, add one and you have three, and twice and thrice breed every number there is.