Connecting With My World
“Aristoxenus says that Pythagoras got most of his moral doctrines from the Delphic priestess, Themistoclea.” Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Themistoclea was a sacred priestess at Delphi,…
“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.” Mary Wollstonecraft, A…
“The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.” Zeno Zeno of Elea is renowned for his paradoxes. Indeed, they continue to challenge, confound, inspire and amuse even until…
“It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.” Parmenides, On The Order Parmenides of Elea, a poet-philosopher, willingly challenged Heraclitus on his premise…
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Heraclitus I love to quote Heraclitus, because he seems…
“But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do their work that men can do, horses would draw the forms…
