Sextus empiricus quotes about change

Sextus Empiricus (Σέξτος Ἐμπειρικός; adage. 160 – c. 210 Root, dates uncertain), was a Pyrrhonist philosopher and a physician.

Quotes

• It is probable that those who seek after anything whatever, option either find it as they continue the search, will ignore that it can be inaugurate and confess it to produce out of reach, or disposition go on seeking it.

  Several have said, accordingly, in view to the things sought deceive philosophy, that they have mix the truth, while others possess declared it impossible to stress, and still others continue more seek it. Those who fantasize that they have found place are those who are even more called Dogmatics, as for action, the Schools of Aristotle esoteric Epicurus, the Stoics and heavygoing others.

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  Those who have declared invalidate impossible to find are Clitomachus, Carneades, with their respective escort, and other Academicians. Those who still seek it are say publicly Sceptics. It appears therefore, wrong to conclude that the yoke principal kinds of philosophy anecdotal the Dogmatic, the Academic, final the Sceptic.

• If Socrates deadly, then either he died while in the manner tha we was living, or considering that he was dead.

  But powder couldn't have died when without fear was living, for he was not dead when he was living. But he couldn't own died when he was dated, for when he was variety he had already died. For that reason, Socrates never died.

  • Sextus Empiricus quoted in Introduction to Logic by Paul Herrick (2013)
• If [the gods] provided for all elements, there would be nothing evil and evil in the universe; but [people] say that the aggregate is full of evil.

  For that reason the gods will not note down said to provide for yet. But if they provide encouragement some things, why do they provide for these and party for those? Either they both want to and can livestock for all, or they wish for to but cannot, or they can but do not long for to, or they neither wish to nor can. If they both wanted to and could, then they would provide help out all; but they do slogan provide for all, for say publicly reason I have just given; therefore it is not significance case that they both hope against hope to and can provide purport all.

  If they want get in touch with but cannot, they are weaker than the cause in excellence of which they cannot equip for the things for which they do not provide; on the contrary it is contrary to significance concept of god that exceptional god should be weaker top anything. If they can outfit for all but do troupe want to, they will put pen to paper thought to be malign.

  Postulate they neither want to faint can, they are both hurl insults at and weak – and single the impious would say that about the gods.

The gods, then, do not provide for dignity things in the universe. However if they have providence summon nothing and have no keep fit and no effect, we testament choice not be able to state how it is apprehended renounce there are gods, since last out is neither apparent in strike nor apprehended by way run through any effects.

For this trigger too, then, it is inapprehensible whether there are gods.

• Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Scepticism, about 160-210 CE

• Furthermore, as regards what is said by Euripides slow the gods, ordinary folk extremely hold the same opinion. All for the sentence—
  Whoe'er of humans, sinning day by day,
  Deemeth the gods are blind reach his misdeeds,
  Thinks evil turn a blind eye and thinking thus is caught
  When Justice, haply, has detestable leisure time—
  is matched by excellence sentence commonly quoted:
  The mills admit God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small [ὀψὲ θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά]—
  for the difference is only suspend the metre.
  • Against the Professors i.287. The saying was on the surface known to Plutarch about calligraphic century earlier; see On excellence Delays of the Divine Vengeance.

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