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Single Idea 1522

[filed under theme 29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism ]

Full Idea

Wretched is he who cares not for clear thinking about the gods.

Gist of Idea

It is wretched not to want to think clearly about the gods

Source

Empedocles (fragments/reports [c.453 BCE], B132), quoted by Clement - Miscellanies 5.140.5.1

Book Ref

'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.155