Empedocles Quotes

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.

Each man believes only his experience.

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

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.

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

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

What is right may properly be uttered even twice.

Many fires burn below the surface.

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.

The sea is the sweat of the earth.

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

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

Earth's sweat, the sea.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.