The First Philosophers of Greece, Том 3K. 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 45 - Changing it finds rest. 84. Even a potion separates into its ingredients when it is not stirred. 85. Corpses are more fit to be thrown away than dung. 86.
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 - Much learning does not teach one to have understanding ; else it would have taught Hesiod, and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes, and Hekataios.
Страница 41 - Gods are mortals, men are immortals, each living in the others' death and dying in the others' life. -. Of. Best. Emp. Pyrrh. iii. 230, BP 38. 68. For to souls it is death to become water, and for water it is death to become earth ; but water is formed from earth, and from water, soul.
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 189 - Hair and leaves and thick feathers of birds are the same thing in origin, and reptiles' scales, too, on strong limbs. 238. But on hedgehogs, sharp-pointed hair bristles on their backs. 240. Out of which divine Aphrodite wrought eyes untiring. 241. Aphrodite fashioning them curiously with bonds of love. 242. When they first grew together in the hands of Aphrodite. 243. The liver well supplied with blood. 244. Where many heads grew up without necks, and arms were wandering about naked, bereft of shoulders,...
Страница 82 - It [ie being] always abides in the same place, not moved at all, nor is it fitting that it should move from one place to another.
Страница 71 - The following are fit topics for conversation for men reclining on a soft couch by the fire in the winter season, when after a meal they are drinking sweet wine and eating a little pulse : Who are you, and what is your family ? What is your age, my friend ? How old were you when the Medes invaded this land ? 18. Now, however, I come to another topic, and I will show the way. . . . They say that once on a time when a hound was badly treated a passer-by pitied him and said, ' Stop beating him, for...