Empedocles Quotes

• Each man believes only his experience.

  Empédocles

  Believe, Men

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• There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.

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  Nature, Hate, Environmental

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• None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

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  Hombres, Mundo

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• 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.

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  Boys, Sea, Bird

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• What is right may properly be uttered even twice.

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  Mayo

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• Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

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  Men, Knowing, Disappear

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• 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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  Love, Hatred, Together

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• Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

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  Blessed, Divine Wisdom, Opinion

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• Many fires burn below the surface.

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  Fire, Surface, Below The Surface

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• La fuerza que une los elementos para convertirse en todas las cosas es el Amor, también llamado Afrodita; el Amor reúne elementos disímiles en una unidad, para convertirse en una cosa compuesta. El Amor es la misma fuerza que el ser humano encuentra en sí mismo cuando siente alegría, amor y paz. La lucha, por el contrario, es la fuerza responsable de la disolución de lo uno en lo múltiple, los cuatro elementos que lo componen.

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  Love Is, Hands, Four Elements

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• The sea is the sweat of the earth.

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  Sea, Sweat, Earth

  Empedocles (1992). “The Poem of Empedocles: A Text and Translation with an Introduction”

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• 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 light of the sky.

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  Light, Air, Sky

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• 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.

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  Fuego, Aire, Agua

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• There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.

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  Blessed, Long, Utterance

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• Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

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  Rain, Science, Wind

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• Earth's sweat, the sea.

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  Science, Sea, Sweat

  Parmenides, Empedocles (2011). “Parmenides and Empedocles: The Fragments in Verse Translation”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Las fuentes antiguas ofrecen diversos relatos sobre la muerte de Empédocles. Según sus enemigos, su deseo de ser considerado un dios le llevó a arrojarse al cráter del Etna para desaparecer por completo del mundo y hacer creer a los hombres que había alcanzado la apoteosis. Desgraciadamente, el volcán frustró su designio al arrojar una de las sandalias del filósofo.

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  Death, Believe, Science

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• [On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

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  Fire, Volcanoes

  "The Fragments of Empedocles". Book by Empedocles, translated by William Ellery Leonard, 1908.

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