Empedocles Quotes

Weak and narrow are the powers implanted in the limbs of men; many the woes that fall on them and bl...

intellectual-humility
knowledge
mortality
vanity
wisdom

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.

Empedocles: The Extant Fragments

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Born: 0490-01-01 BC

Died: 0430-01-01 BC

Empedocles (c. 490 BC – c. 430 BC) was a poet, statesman, and pre-Socratic philosopher from the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. Two of his philosophical verse texts, On Nature and Purifications, survived antiquity in fragmentary form; these fragments comprise the only works considered to be of genuine Empedoclean authorship.[1]More

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