Thales of Miletus
quoted 2 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Thales of Miletus the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
1 quoted · 1 reported
1 neutral 1 refutedin the voice of an Egyptian woman 1
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation
The passage explicitly reports Thales's stated doctrine before critiquing it.
Thales of Miletus, who first inquired into such matters, said that water is the beginning of things, and that god is that mind which fashioned all things out of water — if gods can exist without sensation;
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in the voice of an Egyptian woman
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Ad Nationes Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
A direct rebuke is quoted from an unnamed Egyptian woman addressed to Thales.
Rightly, then, did Thales of Miletus, while he examines the whole heaven and walks about with his eyes, fall basely into a well, much laughed at by that Egyptian:
book 2 ¶
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