Skip to main content

The nature of God is a circle ...

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Empedocles 19 quotes

Earth's sweat, the sea....

Earth's sweat, the sea.

Empedocles 19 quotes

[On the volcano.] And many a f...

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

Empedocles 19 quotes

Having glimpsed a small part o...

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

Empedocles 19 quotes

Various accounts of Empedocle'...

Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw himself into the crater of Mount Etna so that he might vanish from the world completely and thus lead men to believe he had achieved apotheosis. Unfortunately the volcano defeated his design by throwing out one of the philosopher's sandals.

Empedocles 19 quotes

What is right may properly be ...

What is right may properly be uttered even twice.

Empedocles 19 quotes

None of the gods has formed th...

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

Empedocles 19 quotes

For before this I was born onc...

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.

Empedocles 19 quotes

Blessed is he who has acquired...

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 19 quotes

The force that unites the elem...

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.

Empedocles 19 quotes

Many fires burn below the surf...

Many fires burn below the surface.

Empedocles 19 quotes

There are forces in nature cal...

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.

Empedocles 19 quotes

At one time through love all t...

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 19 quotes

Iris from sea brings wind or m...

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

Empedocles 19 quotes

What is lawful is not binding ...

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.

Empedocles 19 quotes

Each man believes only his exp...

Each man believes only his experience.

Empedocles 19 quotes

There is an utterance of Neces...

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.

Empedocles 19 quotes

The sea is the sweat of the ea...

The sea is the sweat of the earth.

Empedocles 19 quotes

But come, hear my words, for t...

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.

Empedocles 19 quotes

История в фотографиях (727)

33

Скарлетт Йоханссон для V Life, 2004 год. Карен Мюлдер для «Vogue», 1992 год. Викки Дуган — американская модель и звезда Playboy, вдохновила художников на создание персонажа Джессики Рэббит из фильма «...

5 умерших актеров фильма «Одиноким предоставляется общежитие»

781

июне 1984-го на экраны вышел фильм «Одиноким предоставляется общежитие». Мелодраму о советской свахе посмотрели 23 млн зрителей. А затем кинокартина вошла в коллекцию популярных фильмов о любви, кото...

История в фотографиях (726)

111

Нив Кэмпбелл, 1997 год. Женщины на мотоциклах в Великобритании, 1930-е годы. Моника Беллуччи, 2002 год. Фрида Кало, 1939 год....

История в фотографиях (725)

106

Надя Ауэрман, 1995 год. Американская актриса Ребекка Де Морнэй, 1980-е. Ванесса Уильямс - певица и актриса, 1990-е. Последний снимок сумчатого волка, 1933 год. На сегодняшний день этот вид прекратил с...

История в фотографиях (724)

169

Тpи нeвecты Дpaкулы в фильмe «Βaн Χeльcинг»/ Сборщики фруктов отдыхают в саду в 1950-х годах. Кристен Белл в фотосессии Rolling Stone & Nylon Mag, 2000-ые. Японский шлем Кабуто, XVII век....

История в фотографиях (723)

214

Харрисон Форд и Шон Коннери на съемках фильма «Индиана Джонс и последний крестовый поход», 1989 год. Мэрилин Монро, 1956 год. Fahrbares Landhaus, Германия, 1922 год. Одна из первых версий того, что м...