Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Animals

    Fish

    animal · 7 works · 11 mentions · 11 anchored passages

    fishes · fish · the fishes · a fish · fish (needing salt) · fly-fishing · the fish · the two fishes · wide fish of sweet waters · السمك

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Fishes2 mentions

    Stromata (Greek) · Orations (Greek)

    I am silent now of the parable in the Gospel that says, "The kingdom of heaven is like to a man who cast a net into the sea, and out of the multitude of the fishes taken makes a choice of the better ones.
    book 6

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    A fish used in an anecdote illustrating how animals warn their own kind of danger.

    And certain others say that if a fish drawn up escapes when the line has broken, no fish of the same kind will any longer be found in the same place that day.
    book 1
    but they say that fishes do not breathe this air, but that other one which was mingled with the water straightway at the first creation, as it was with the rest of the elements—which is also a token of their material permanence.
    book 7
    For many and various are the baits, by reason of the differences among the fish.
    book 7

    Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāqMedieval · Arabic

    Fish, used in the simile of appetite deprived of its object.

    And know that the promptings of the appetites, when the things they want are joined to them, are as firewood to fire and as water to fish;
    ch. 3 · printed page 39

    CittaviśuddhiprakaraṇaAncient · Sanskrit

    Fish, cited alongside fishermen as creatures constantly immersed in water yet not thereby purified.

    and what then to say of fish and the like, who dwell in the water night and day?
    ch. 1

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)Ancient · Sanskrit

    A fish addressed as guardian of the bodily passage in the healing charm.

    O wide fish of sweet waters, you guard its passage — free from discharge, free from disease.
    kanda 19

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Animals cited by Diogenes as more prudent than men in matters of reproduction, needing no payment or courtship.

    And he said that the fishes appeared somewhat more prudent than men;
    oration 6

    Hymn 27 to ArtemisClassical · Greek

    Marine creatures mentioned in the shaking sea.

    earth quakes and the sea also where fishes shoal.
    hymn 27 to artemis

    Law in a Free State19th Century · English

    Fish deceived by the angler in fly-fishing, used as an example in the narrator's argument about expediency versus abstract duty.

    Because I do not ask the fishes to trust me in the future.
    ch. 3