Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Bee

    animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    the bee · Dabūrā · Deborah · Sicilian bee · bee · نحلة

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The bee2 mentions

    To Demonicus (Greek) · Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)

    For just as we see the bee settling on all the flowers, and sipping the best from each, so also those who aspire to culture ought not to leave anything untasted, but should gather useful knowledge from every source.
    to demonicus

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The bee, used both as a metaphor for a wisdom-gathering teacher and as a literal example of diligence.

    or go to the bee, and learn how she is a worker — for she too, grazing over the whole meadow, brings forth a single honeycomb.
    book 1
    A Sicilian bee in truth, plucking the flowers of the prophetic and apostolic meadow, he begot in the souls of his hearers a pure and undefiled thing of knowledge.
    book 1

    To DemonicusClassical · Greek

    An insect used as a metaphor for the seeker of culture, who gathers the best from every source as a bee gathers from every flower.

    For just as we see the bee settling on all the flowers, and sipping the best from each, so also those who aspire to culture ought not to leave anything untasted, but should gather useful knowledge from every source.
    to demonicus

    Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ20th Century · Arabic

    The insect whose Hebrew name Deborah opens Zaydan's list of early Hebrew animal names.

    The Jews, in their earliest periods, followed this pattern in naming, and that is why you see among their ancient names many names of animals:
    ch. 6 · printed page 33