23 Quotes by Empedocles

God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.

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

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

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

Earth's sweat, the sea.

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.

Many fires burn below the surface.

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

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.