Isidore of Seville quotes

Isidore of Seville was a renowned Spanish scholar, theologian, and Archbishop of Seville. His most famous work, the "Etymologiae," became a crucial reference for medieval education and knowledge. He is celebrated for preserving classical knowledge and influencing European intellectual history. Here are 3 of his quotes:

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear. (Isidore of Seville)

And without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.

Isidore of Seville

Many creatures go through a natural change and by decay pass into different forms, as bees [are formed] by the decaying flesh of calves, as beetles from horses, locusts from mules, scorpions from crabs.

Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville

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Occupation: Roman Scholar
Born: 560
Died: April 1, 636
Quotes count: 3
Wikipedia: Isidore of Seville

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