Porphyry Quotes on Knowledge
Porphyry of Tyre was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher and the most important pupil of Plotinus. This page collects quotes attributed to Porphyry on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Porphyry:
“Empty are the words of that philosopher which heal no human suffering.”
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Attributed to Porphyry:
“Let us look at things as they are, not as they appear.”
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“Introduction to Aristotle's Organon , as translated by Octavius Freire Owen (1853), p. v”
The utility of a science which enables men to take cognizance of the travellers on the mind 's highway, and excludes those disorderly interlopers, verbal fallacies , needs but small attestation. Its searching penetration by definition alone, before which even mathematical precision fails, would especially commend it to those whom the abstruseness of the study does not terrify, and who recognise th -
“Every body is in place ; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality.”
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“The fleshless diet contributes to health and to a suitable endurance of hard work in philosophy.”
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“Not only can logos be seen in absolutely all animals, but in many of them it has the groundwork for being perfected.”
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“The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.”
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