Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Animals

    Bee

    animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    bee · the bee · Sicilian bee · gregarious animal · like a bee · the bee's intricate honeycomb

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The bee3 mentions

    Metaphysics (Greek) · To Demonicus (Greek) · Politics (Greek)

    Such as cannot hear sounds (as the bee, and any other similar type of creature) are intelligent, but cannot learn;
    book 1

    in the texts

    MetaphysicsClassical · Greek

    Example animal cited to illustrate the class of creatures that possess intelligence but cannot learn because they lack the sense of hearing needed alongside memory.

    Such as cannot hear sounds (as the bee, and any other similar type of creature) are intelligent, but cannot learn;
    book 1

    PoliticsClassical · Greek

    The bee, cited as an example of a gregarious animal lesser in political nature than man.

    The mere voice, it is true, can indicate pain and pleasure, and therefore is possessed by the other animals as well (for their nature has been developed so far as to have sensations of what is painful and pleasant and to indicate those sensations to one another), but speech is designed to indicate the advantageous and the harmful, and therefore also the right and the wrong;
    book 1

    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

    PythianClassical · Greek

    A bee invoked twice in simile: once to praise Thrasybulus's sweetness of character, and once to characterize the poet's own darting, theme-hopping compositional method.

    His sweet temperament, when he associates with his drinking companions, surpasses even the bee’s intricate honeycomb.
    chapter 6
    The choicest hymn of praise flits from theme to theme, like a bee.
    chapter 10