Empedocles Quotes

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• Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.
• 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.
• 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…
• Earth's sweat, the sea.
• Many fires burn below the surface.
• The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become…
• Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
• 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.
• [On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.
• Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw…
• The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
• 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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