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Empedocles Quotes


A Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek city in Sicily.
(ca. 490 - 430 BC)


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

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.