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The 12 best phrases of Empédocles

The 12 best phrases of Empédocles

March 10, 2024

Empedocles of Agrigento (495 a.C. - 444 a.C.) was a prominent Greek philosopher and politician.

Ancient Greece, Empedocles played an important role in the development of rationalist philosophy. Very influenced by the ideas of Parmenides, he believed in the immutability of the existing. He was an exceptional speaker and a renowned doctor. He founded the Sicilian school of medicine, being considered one of the most intrepid and prolific researchers of his time.

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Empédocles Famous Phrases

There is usually a consensus that the cause of his death was caused. Empedocles committed suicide. The only works that have been recorded are two poems, called "On the nature of beings" and "The purifications."


In this article we are going to discover this Greek thinker. Through the 12 best phrases of Empédocles we will travel in time to know the ideas of this exceptional thinker and man of science.

1. It is impossible for something to become what it is in any way.

On the essence of things.

2. Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable is the one who rests there a tenuous opinion concerning the gods.

A great phrase about divine wisdom.

3. The sea is the sweat of the earth.

Excellent metaphor of great poetic draft.

4. These elements never cease to change place continuously, now they are all united by love in one, now each one apart by the hatred engendered in struggles, until they come together in the unity of the whole and conform to it.

A sample of his philosophical monism.


5. Happy is he who has won the great number of divine thoughts, woe to him whose beliefs about the gods are dark!

A theistic thought of the great Empedocles.

6. The nature of God is a circle whose center is everywhere and the circumference at all.

One of those phrases of Empedocles in which he describes his vision of the Higher Self.

7. What is right could be well said even twice.

On the truth and its discursivity.

8. It is convenient to repeat the useful words.

Very much in line with the previous sentence.

9. No mortal thing has a beginning or end in death destruction; there is only a mixture and separation of the mixed, but for mortal men these processes are called "beginnings".

In this sentence he shows us his positioning on the immutability of matter.

10. The force that unites all the elements to be all things is love, also called Aphrodite. Love unites different elements in a unit, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find in work, whenever they feel joy, love and peace. The struggle, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution.

A famous quote by Empedocles that leads us to reflect deeply.


11. We see the earth through the earth, the water through the water, the divine air through the air and the fire that destroys the fire. We understand love for love and hatred for hatred.

On sameness.

12. I have already been, previously, boy and girl, shrub, bird and fish inhabiting the sea.

Another phrase of Parmenides that tells us about monism.


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