Quotes by Empedocles

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

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

“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.”

“At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time, through strifes hatred, they are borne each of them apart.”

“When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, Hes called you home, Im sad and I shed tears. Yet, Im glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.”

“I believe in the Big Bang theory God spoke and BANG, it was.”

“A comprehended god is no god”

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

Weak and narrow are the powers implanted in the limbs of men; many the woes that fall on them and blunt the edge of thought; short is the measure of the life in death through which they toil; then are they borne away, like smoke they vanish into air, and what they dream they know is but the little each hath stumbled on in wandering about the world; yet boast they all that they have learned the whole—vain fools! for what that is, no eye hath seen, no ear hath heard, nor can it be conceived by mind of man. Thou, then, since thou hast fallen to this place, shalt know no more than human wisdom may attain.