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Tag: Epicurus

  • The Garden Philosopher: Epicurus of Samos on the existence of the Gods

    The Garden Philosopher: Epicurus of Samos on the existence of the Gods

    “The gods exist, but they are not what the hoi polloi suppose them to be. And the impious man (Gr. ἀσεβὴς, asebēs) is not he who denies the existence of the gods whom the multitude worship, but he is such who attaches to the gods the beliefs of the multitude.” EPICURUS OF SAMOS, EPISTLE TO MENOECEUS.…

  • Voltaire on The First Philosophers

    Voltaire on The First Philosophers

    “How precise and true is Plato’s expression, how profound and philosophical his remark on the (human) soul or Ego, when he defined it as “a compound of the same and the other.” And yet how little this hint has been understood, since the world took it to mean that the soul was the breath of…