 Moreover, it is immovable in the bonds of mighty chains, without beginning and without end; since coming into being and passing away have been driven afar, and true belief has cast them away. It is the same, and it rests in the self-same place, abiding...  Early Greek Philosophy - Page 200by John Burnet - 1908 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1904 - 618 pages
...clearly to be thought of by him as a determinate and limited whole. " It is not permitted," he says, " to what is to be infinite ; for it is in need of nothing...while, if it were infinite, it would stand in need of everything." The same view is in the main characteristic of the Eleatic School as a whole, Melissus... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 488 pages
...been driven afar, and true belief has cast them away. It is the same, and it rests in the self-same place, abiding in itself. And thus it remaineth constant...while, if it were infinite, it would stand in need of everything. RP 96. Look steadfastly with thy mind at things afar as if they were at hand. You cannot... | |
 | Thomas Little Heath - Science - 1991 - 260 pages
...been driven afar, and true belief has cast them away. It is the same, and it rests in the selfsame place, abiding in itself. And thus it remaineth constant...while, if it were infinite, it would stand in need of everything. . . . Since, then, it has a furthest limit, it is complete on every side, like the mass... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...been driven afar, and true belief has cast them away. It is the same, and it rests in the self-same place, abiding in itself. And thus it remaineth constant...while, if it were infinite, it would stand in need of everything. RP 96. Look steadfastly with thy mind at things afar as if they were at hand. You cannot... | |
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