John Burnet > Quotes

“We are strangers in this world, and the body is the tomb of the soul, and yet we must not seek to escape by self-murder; for we are the chattels of God who is our herdsman, and without his command we have no right to make our escape. In this life, there are three kinds of men, just as there are three sorts of people who come to the Olympic Games. The lowest class is made up of those who come to buy and sell, the next above them are those who compete. Best of all, however, are those who come simply to look on. The greatest purification of all is, therefore, disinterested science, and it is the man who devotes himself to that, the true philosopher, who has most effectually released himself from the 'wheel of birth.”
― John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy

“the All was alternately one and at peace through the power of Aphrodite,”
― John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy

“It must, however, be remembered that the world was already very old when science and philosophy began.”
― John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy