The world is built upon the power of numbers.
-Pythagoras

Number proceeds from unity.
-Aristotle

All numbers are simply
qualitatively differentiated manifestations of the primal one.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

You don't have to be a mathematician
to have a feel for numbers.
-John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.
-Proclus

Why are numbers beautiful?
It's like asking why Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is beautiful.
If you don't see why, someone can't tell you.
I know numbers are beautiful.
If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
-Paul Erdos

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas,
and the cause of gods and demons.
-Pythagoras

Numbers are the purest expression of the truth
because they determine the exact relation between cause and effect.
They allow one to know all the "hierarchical" functions
which, from the cause, give birth to the effect.
-R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm
as a dynamic ordering principle...
As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor,
but more generally, a world-structuring factor.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

It [number] preconsciously orders both psychic thought processes
and the manifestations of material reality.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

We define number psychologically
as an archetype of order which has become conscious.
-Carl Jung

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument
of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.
-Marie-Louise von Franz

Number is different from quantity.
-Gregory Bateson

Number underlies form, and number guides sound.
Number lies at the root of the manifested universe.
-Helena P. Blavatsky

It is the unfolding of primal forms
which gives birth to numbers.
-Lawrence Blair

Everything in the universe
is in numerical harmony.
-Rudolf Steiner

Numbers hook up to create the patterns of the universe.
They form networks or resonance
in the timing and spacing of matter and energy,
as well as count discrete sums to quantify
the units of whatever is being timed and spaced.
-Katya Walter

Thanks to number,
the cry becomes the song,
noise acquires rhythm,
the spring is transformed into a dance
force becomes dynamic
and outlines figures.
-Joseph-Marie de Maistre

Music is a secret arithmetical exercise
and the person who indulges in it
does not realize that he is manipulating numbers.
-Gottfried Leibnitz

Numbers constitute the only universal language.
-Nathanael West

Numbers are intellectual witnesses
that belong only to mankind.
-Aristotle

Numerical precision
is the very soul of science.
-D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations
between physical laws and laws of numbers,
so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature
to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
-James Clerk Maxwell

A chemical substance
is but the shadow of a number.
-Gaston Bachelard

Synergetics is energetic geometry
since it identifies energy with number.
-R. Buckminster Fuller

When you have mastered numbers,
you will in fact no longer be reading numbers,
any more than you read words when reading a book.
You will be reading meanings.
-Harold Geneen