Home / Quotes / Quote by Diogenes Laertius

Quote by Diogenes Laertius

“Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.”

Quote by Diogenes Laertius

Author

Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius was a Greek philosopher and biographer, whose exact birth and death dates are unknown. His most notable work, 'Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers', is an important source for the study of ancient Greek philosophy. more

You May Also Like

“If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.”

Ifs Deserve Appearance Being True Deceitful

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.”

Said Whole Half

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.”

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.”

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.”

Used Causes Water Air All Things Infinite Primaries Defining

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”

Men Said Land Dying Grieving Descent Hades Foreign Lands

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.”

Men Wells Said Born Boys Practice Necessary Things

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.”

Grace Sacrifice Plato

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.”

Opinion Expression Habit Agree Peculiar

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.”

Way Eye Used Easy His Eyes Shade

Author:Diogenes Laertius