[5] According to Damascius, "Isidore was awestruck at the sight of Proclus, venerable and marvelous to see; he thought he was seeing in him the very face of true philosophy.
"[6] Proclus for his part used to "marvel at Isidore's appearance, as it was possessed by the divine and full of the philosophical life within.
[10] It is elsewhere related that Isidore had a wife called Domna, who died five days after the birth of their son whom they named Proclus.
It is generally admitted that he was rather an enthusiast than a thinker; reasoning with him was subsidiary to inspiration, and he preferred the theories of Pythagoras and Plato to the unimaginative logic and the practical ethics of the Stoics and Aristotelians.
He seems to have given loose rein to theosophical speculation and attached great importance to dreams and waking visions, on which he used to expatiate in his public discourses.