Damascius Quotes on Knowledge
Damascius was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher and the last head of the Platonic Academy at Athens before its closure under the emperor Justinian in 529. This page collects quotes attributed to Damascius on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Damascius:
“Knowledge of the divine is more like a wonder than a thought.”
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Attributed to Damascius:
“We do not so much know the One as touch upon it.”
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Attributed to Damascius:
“The soul that knows itself participates already in the divine.”
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“Ζωσίμη ἡ πρὶν ἐοῦσα μόνῳ τῷ σώματι δούλη καὶ τῷ σώματι νῦν εὗρεν ἐλευθερίην.”
Zosime who was never a slave but in body, has now gained freedom for her body too. | Anthologia Palatina , VII, 553 (W. R. Paton, Greek Anthology , II, p. 298) | J. A. Symonds Jr., "Epitaph of a Slave", Studies of the Greek Poets (1873), p. 357: She who was once but in her flesh a slave Hath for her flesh found freedom in the grave. | Earl of Cromer , "Freedom in Death", Paraphrases and Translatio -
“Anthologia Palatina , VII, 553 (W. R. Paton, Greek Anthology , II, p. 298)”
Ζωσίμη ἡ πρὶν ἐοῦσα μόνῳ τῷ σώματι δούλη καὶ τῷ σώματι νῦν εὗρεν ἐλευθερίην.