Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who was regarded as one of the Seven Sages of Greece and is credited with being the first philosopher in the Western tradition.
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625 BC - 545 BC
Miletus, Türkiye
"Thales also, from what is recalled about him, seems to have supposed that the soul is something which is capable of bringing about movement"
"Thales said that the water is the beginning and end of everything"
Book & Page: (Aristotle Metaphysics p.13)
#Quotes"Some say that soul has been mixed in the whole world. On this basis , perhaps, Thales also held that all things are full of gods."
Book & Page: (Aristotle On the soul p.19 411a)
#Quotes"Thales the first philosopher compared the soul with magnet which makes iron move"
Book & Page: (Aristotle - On the soul p.XI and p7 405a)
#Quotes"Thales also, from what is recalled about him, seems to have supposed that the soul is something which is capable of bringing about movement, if indeed he said that a magnet possesses a soul because it moves iron."
Book & Page: Francis Bacon, Major Works (Oxford), p283
#Quotes"Thales said that the water is the beginning and end of everything"
Book & Page: (Aristotle Metaphysics p.13)
#Quotes"Some say that soul has been mixed in the whole world. On this basis , perhaps, Thales also held that all things are full of gods."
Book & Page: (Aristotle On the soul p.19 411a)
#Quotes"Thales the first philosopher compared the soul with magnet which makes iron move"
Book & Page: (Aristotle - On the soul p.XI and p7 405a)
#Quotes"Thales also, from what is recalled about him, seems to have supposed that the soul is something which is capable of bringing about movement, if indeed he said that a magnet possesses a soul because it moves iron."
Book & Page: Francis Bacon, Major Works (Oxford), p283
#Quotes"Thales also, from what is recalled about him, seems to have supposed that the soul is something which is capable of bringing about movement, if indeed he said that a magnet possesses a soul because it moves iron."
Book & Page: Francis Bacon, Major Works (Oxford), p283
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