“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 a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.” FeelsHumansHandsTogetherJoyForceHuman BeingsLove IsFourElementsAll ThingsResponsibleUnityStrifePeace And LoveDissolutionAphroditeCompositesFour Elements Author:Empedocles
“Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.” WealthOpinionDivineBlessedMiserableDivine Wisdom Author:Empedocles
“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.” BornBoysSeaBirdPlantFishesMaidensFish In The Sea Author:Empedocles
“You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.” HeartOpinionAll ThingsMortalsPersuasiveWarranty Author:Parmenides
“We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.” ThinkingDifferentWholeSpeakUnchanging Author:Parmenides
“The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.” ThinkingPathTruth IsCompanionPersuasionEnquiry Author:Parmenides
“It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.” ReturnIndifferent Author:Parmenides
“Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.” BarsInquiry Author:Parmenides
“There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.” WholeStoriesLeftUniqueUnwavering Author:Parmenides