The History of Ancient Philosophy, Volumen1

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D. A. Talboys, 1838

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Página 425 - But men foolishly think that Gods are born like as men are, And have too a dress like their own, and their voice and their figure : But if oxen and lions had hands like ours, and fingers, Then would horses like unto horses, and oxen to oxen, Paint and fashion their god-forms, and give to them bodies Of like shape to their own, as they themselves too are fashioned."!
Página 210 - From this it follows that the air must be eternal, imperishable, and endowed with consciousness. "It knows much; for without reason it would be impossible for all to be arranged so duly and proportionately as that all should maintain its fitting measure, winter and summer, night and day, the rain, the wind, and fair weather; and whatever object we consider will be found to have been ordered in the best and most beautiful manner possible.
Página 280 - Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be ; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed ; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexistent things ; so that 'all becoming' might more correctly be called ' becoming mixed,' and all corruption
Página 119 - Darkness there was; [for] this universe was enveloped with darkness, and was undistinguishable [like fluids mixed in] waters: but that mass, which was covered by the husk, was [at length] produced by the power of contemplation. First desire was formed in his mind: and that became the original productive seed; which the wise, recognising it by the intellect in their hearts, distinguish, in nonentity, as the bond of entity.
Página 437 - Oh, that mine were the deep mind, prudent and looking to both sides ; Long, alas ! have I strayed on the road of error, beguiled, And am, now, hoary of years, yet exposed to doubt and distraction Of all kinds ; for, wherever I turn to consider, I am lost in the One and All.
Página 436 - Certainly no mortal yet knew, and ne'er shall there be one Knowing both well, the Gods and the All, whose nature we treat of, For when by chance he at times may utter the true and the perfect, He wists not, unconscious ; for error is spread over all things.
Página 267 - The issuing of individual things from out of the infinite All was thus explained by Anaximander : The central point in the cosmopoeia was the earth ; for, being of cylindrical form with a base in the ratio 1 : 3 to its altitude, it was retained in the centre by the air, and by the equality of its distances from all the limits of the world ; the stars, on the other hand, moved round it at equal distances from each other, — the planets and fixed stars lowest, then the moon, and ultimately the sun...
Página 231 - The world was made neither by God* nor man ; and it was, and is, and ever shall be, an ever-living fire in due measure self^kindled, and in due measure self-extinguished.
Página 37 - ... we habitually bear about with us much that is exclusively Christian, which, however, having as it were become a second nature, is no longer looked upon as, in any wise, an influence of Christianity, but is regarded as an ordinary element of man's nature. But the one, at most, only shews that...
Página 37 - Christianity would be less questioned, if it had not penetrated so widely and so deeply into our entire being ; while, if it had gained a complete supremacy, its power would be instantaneously and universally acknowledged. It is overlooked principally on these two accounts...

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