But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.
Each man believes only his experience. - Empedocles
Each man believes only his experience.
- 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… - 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…
What is right may properly be uttered even twice. - Empedocles
What is right may properly be uttered even twice.
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.
Many fires burn below the surface. - Empedocles
Many fires burn below the surface.
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.
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.
Earth's sweat, the sea. - Empedocles
Earth's sweat, the sea.
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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