The First Philosophers of Greece, Том 3

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Arthur Fairbanks
K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1898 - 300 страници
This book does a fantastic job of giving histories of the first philosophers of Greece. The reader is given insight into the achievements and life of each early philosopher, from Thales in the seventh century B.C. to Anaxagoras in the fifth century B.C.?

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Страница 31 - In his opinion want is the process of arrangement, and satiety the process of conflagration. \ . 25. Fire lives in the death of earth, and air lives in the death of fire ; water lives in the death of air, and earth in that of water.
Страница 33 - Herakleitos, bring all things.' 35. Hesiod is the teacher of most men ; they suppose that his knowledge was very extensive, when in fact he did not know night and day, for they are one. 36. God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and hunger...
Страница 67 - Yes, and if oxen and horses or lions had hands, and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and make their bodies in the image of their several kinds.
Страница 29 - This order, the same for all things, no one of gods or men has made, but it always was, and is, and ever shall be, an ever-living fire, kindling according to fixed measure, and extinguished according to fixed measure.
Страница 55 - Monac. 195, p. 282. 129. (Herakleitos fittingly called religious rites) cures (for the soul). 130. They purify themselves by defiling themselves with blood, as if one who had stepped into the mud were to wash it off with mud. If any one of men should observe him doing so, he would think he was insane. And to these images they pray, just as if one -were to converse with men's houses, for they know not what gods and heroes are.
Страница 237 - TRANSLATION. 1. All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness ; for the small also was infinite. And when they were all together, nothing was clear and distinct because of their smallness ; for air and aether comprehended all things, both being infinite ; for these are present in everything, and are greatest both as to number and as to greatness.

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