Sosipatra of Ephesus Quotes on Knowledge
Sosipatra of Ephesus was a fourth-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher of late antiquity, whose teaching and prophetic activity in the city of Pergamum is recorded in Eunapius's Lives of the Sophists. This page collects quotes attributed to Sosipatra of Ephesus on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Sosipatra of Ephesus:
“The soul that has been rightly initiated remembers what the body's eyes have not yet seen.”
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Attributed to Sosipatra of Ephesus:
“Philosophy and prophecy meet in the trained intellect, and not before.”
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Attributed to Sosipatra of Ephesus:
“What I see is what I have learned to see; what I have learned to see is what is.”
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Attributed to Sosipatra of Ephesus:
“The Chaldaean teachers gave me the alphabet of the divine; the work of reading is mine.”
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Attributed to Sosipatra of Ephesus:
“A woman may be the equal of her husband in philosophy and the superior of him in seeing.”