“The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.”
“Every body is in place; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality.”
Porphyry (philosopher)
“Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed into parts, and multiplied about individuals with a diminution of power; but when they ascend by their energies beyond bodies, they become united...”
Porphyry (philosopher)
“Not only can logos be seen in absolutely all animals, but in many of them it has the groundwork for being perfected.”
Porphyry (philosopher)
“So people should abstain from other animals just as they should from the human.”
Porphyry (philosopher)
“Porphyry wrote in just about every branch of learning practiced at the time but only a portion of his large output is extant. Porphyry was an influential thinker. He applied Neoplatonism to pagan reli...”
Porphyry (philosopher)