3 Quotes & Sayings By Empedocles

Empedocles (c. 490 BC – c. 430 BC) was a Greek philosopher, known primarily for his principles of love and justice, which were at the core of his metaphysics. He was the first to explain the four classical elements as composed of four different kinds of motion Read more

Empedocles' philosophy had an immediate impact on their culture, influencing several thinkers who followed him, including the pre-Socratic philosopher Anaxagoras and the Sophists, as well as notable philosophers such as Socrates and Plato. Empedocles' influence helped to establish the roots of science and humanism in Western society.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere. Empedocles
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Weak and narrow are the powers implanted in the limbs of men; many the woes that fall on them and blunt the edge of thought; short is the measure of the life in death through which they toil; then are they borne away, like smoke they vanish into air, and what they dream they know is but the little each hath stumbled on in wandering about the world; yet boast they all that they have learned the whole–vain fools! for what that is, no eye hath seen, no ear hath heard, nor can it be conceived by mind of man. Thou, then, since thou hast fallen to this place, shalt know no more than human wisdom may attain. Empedocles