Themistius Quotes

Themistius was a fourth-century Greek philosopher, rhetorician, and prefect of Constantinople. Committed to the Aristotelian tradition rather than to the dominant Neoplatonism of his age, he produced influential paraphrases of Aristotle's works on the soul, the physics, and the heavens that became standard introductory texts in the Byzantine, Arabic, and Latin philosophical traditions. The quotes below are attributed to Themistius, organized by topic.