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.
Each man believes only his experience. - Empedocles
Each man believes only his experience.
- Empedocles
What is right may properly be uttered even twice. - Empedocles
What is right may properly be uttered even twice.
What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless li… - Empedocles
What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless li…
Many fires burn below the surface. - Empedocles
Many fires burn below the surface.
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned. - Empedocles
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
Earth's sweat, the sea. - Empedocles
Earth's sweat, the sea.
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been. - Empedocles
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods. - 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.
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. - Empedocles
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.
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