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Thales

Pre-Socratic

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"

Francis Bacon

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Aristotle(384 BC -322 BC)

"The world rests on water "

Book & Page: (Aristotle Metaphysics)

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"Thales said that the water is the beginning and end of everything"

Book & Page: (Aristotle Metaphysics p.13)

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"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)

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"Thales the first philosopher compared the soul with magnet which makes iron move"

Book & Page: (Aristotle - On the soul p.XI and p7 405a)

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Francis Bacon(1561 -1626)

"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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Aristotle(384 BC -322 BC)

"The world rests on water "

Book & Page: (Aristotle Metaphysics)

#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

Francis Bacon(1561 -1626)

"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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Francis Bacon(1561 -1626)

"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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