Top 28 Best Empedocles Quotes
#1. For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.
Aristotle.
#3. What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.
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#4. None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
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#5. If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!
Catherine Of Siena
#6. Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.
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#7. What is right may properly be uttered even twice.
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#8. No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating of what was mixed, but by mortal men these processes are named "beginnings.
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#9. Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
Plutarch
#10. No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist.
Aleksandar Hemon
#11. I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.
Beth Ditto
#13. Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
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#14. At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
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#15. God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.
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#16. It was not the mixture, O men, of blood and breath that made the beginning and substance of your souls, though your earthborn and mortal body is framed of those things. But your soul has come hither from another place.
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#17. When novelist Margaret Atwood asked women what they feared most from men, they said: 'We're afraid they'll kill us.' When men were asked the same question about women, they said: 'we're afraid they'll laugh at us.
Naomi Wolf
#18. You touch him again," Manon said, "and I'll drink the marrow from your bones.
Sarah J. Maas
#19. For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.
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#20. Empedocles believed that there were two different forces at work in nature. He called them love and strife. Love binds things together, and strife separates them.
Jostein Gaarder
#21. Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
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#22. There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
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#23. The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
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#24. Many fires burn below the surface.
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#26. Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
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#27. Each man believes only his experience.
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#28. [On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.
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