Pythagoras — "The souls of animals called unreasoning are reasonable, not however with active …"

The souls of animals called unreasoning are reasonable, not however with active reasoning powers, because of an imperfect mixture of the bodies and because they do not have the power of speech, as in the case of apes and dogs; for these have intelligence but not the power of speech.
Pythagoras — Pythagoras Ancient · Pythagorean theorem, mathematics

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A belief attributed to Pythagoras in doxographies, reflecting his views on animal souls.

Date: c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)

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