Philolaus

From Stobaeus Anth. 1, 21, 7a
The Pre Socratic Philosophers, G.S. Kirk, J.E. Raven and M.Schofield, Cambridge University Press, New York, Second Edition 1983, p325

"It is necessary for the things that exist to be all either limiters or unlimiteds or both limiters and unlimiteds. But they could not be only unlimiteds... Since, then, they appear to have their existence neither from things that are all limiters nor from things that are all unlimiteds, it is clear thus that both the universe and the things in it were harmonized from both limiters and unlimiteds. And things as they are in fact also make this clear. For some of them, coming from limiters, limit; others, coming from both limiters and unlimiteds, both limit and do not limit; and others, coming from unlimiteds, are evidently unlimited."

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