Xenocrates Quotes

Xenocrates of Chalcedon was a Greek philosopher of the early Academy and the third scholarch after Plato and Speusippus, holding the office for twenty-five years. He systematized the Platonic doctrine into a triad of intelligible, sensible, and intermediate mathematical entities, and his definition of the soul as a self-moving number shaped subsequent Platonic and Pythagorean psychology. The quotes below are attributed to Xenocrates, organized by topic.