Quotes from Empedocles

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

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

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.

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

The blood around men's heart is their thinking.

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.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

Each man believes only his experience.

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

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