Numenius of Apamea Quotes

Numenius of Apamea was a Greek-Syrian Pythagorean and Middle Platonist philosopher and one of the most important precursors of Plotinus and Neoplatonism. His doctrine of three gods, with a transcendent Father, a creative Demiurge, and a created world, anticipated the later Neoplatonic hierarchy of being, while his extensive engagement with Jewish and Eastern wisdom traditions, including the famous question of whether Plato is anything but Moses speaking Attic, marks an early stage of cross-cultural philosophical inquiry. The quotes below are attributed to Numenius of Apamea, organized by topic.