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Apollonios von Tyana war ein antiker griechischer Philosoph. Er stammte aus der Stadt Tyana in Kappadokien und verbrachte sein Leben umherziehend und lehrend im Osten des Römischen Reichs. Da er sich zum Vorbild und zur Lehre des Pythagoras bekannte, wird er zu den Neupythagoreern gezählt.

Seine offenbar außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit und seine als mustergültig betrachtete philosophische Lebensweise beeindruckten seine Zeitgenossen und hatten eine breite Nachwirkung. Um sein Leben und Wirken rankten sich zahlreiche Legenden. Die umfangreiche Apollonios-Biographie des Philostratos, die einen großen Teil der Erzählungen versammelt und den Philosophen verherrlicht, bietet eine Fülle von legendenhaftem Material. Sie stellt zwar eine zentrale Quelle für die antike Apollonios-Rezeption dar, ist aber für die historische Gestalt weit weniger ergiebig. Nur ein kleiner Teil der überlieferten biographischen Angaben und Lehrinhalte kann als gesichert gelten.

Einen großen Teil der antiken Apollonioslegende machen die zahlreichen Berichte über Wundertaten aus, die der wandernde Weise vollbracht haben soll. Schon in der Antike wurden dabei Parallelen zu den Berichten über Jesus von Nazareth und dessen Wunder beobachtet und für polemische Vergleiche genutzt: Christen und Nichtchristen stellten ihren jeweiligen Helden als überlegen dar. Auch in der Frühen Neuzeit wurde Apollonios oft als pagane Gegenfigur oder Parallelgestalt und Alternative zu Jesus Christus wahrgenommen und unter diesem Gesichtspunkt beurteilt. Die moderne Forschung hat zum einen hinsichtlich der historischen Gestalt Quellenkritik betrieben, zum anderen die Legendenbildung und die Instrumentalisierung des Philosophen in religiösen Konflikten eingehend untersucht. Wikipedia  

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“I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world.”

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Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000). On Hinduism: Reviews and reflections, Chapter India and Greece
Different translation: In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing. quoted in The Transition to a Global Society (1991) by Kishor Gandhi, p. 17, and in The Age of Elephants (2006) by Peter Moss, p. v

“To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble.”

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to Euphrates, Epp. Apoll. 83
Letters

“If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is someone considered respectable, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept a fee for philosophy even if he does need it.”

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Epp. Apoll. 42
Letters

“You request my presence at the Olympic Games, and for that reason you have sent envoys. For myself, I would come for the spectacle of physical struggle, except that I would be abandoning the greater struggle for virtue.”

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Epp. Apoll. 24
Letters

“Greet your son Aristocleides from me. I pray he may not turn out like you, since you, too, were once an irreproachable young man.”

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to Gordias, Epp. Apoll. 46
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“Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.”

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to Crito, Epp. Apoll. 23
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“Approve and pursue the kind that is in accordance with nature. But avoid the kind that claims to be inspired: people like that about tell lies about Gods, and urge us to do many foolish things.”

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Attributed to Apollonius. Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000). On Hinduism: Reviews and reflections, Chapter India and Greece

“You must shun barbarians and not govern them since, barbarians as they are, it is not right that they should receive a benefit.”

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to Domitian, Epp. Apoll. 21
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“Plato said that virtue has no master [Republic 617e]. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.”

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to Euphrates, Epp. Apoll. 15
Letters

“The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.”

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to Euphrates, Epp. Apoll. 82
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“The natural philosopher Heraclitus said that man is naturally irrational. If this is true, as it is true, then everyone who enjoys futile glory should hide his face.”

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to Euphrates, Epp. Apoll. 18
Letters

“[Some] disobey the earth and sharpen knives against the animals to gain clothing and food. The Indian Brahmans disapproved of this personally and taught the Naked Philosophers of Egypt to disapprove of it too. From there Pythagoras, who was the first Greek to associate with Egyptians, borrowed the principle. He let the earth keep living creatures, but held that what the earth grows is pure, and so lived off that because it was sufficient to feed body and soul. Clothing made from dead creatures, which most people wear, he considered impure; he dressed in linen and, for the same reason, made his shoes of plaited bark. He derived many advantages from this purity, above all that of perceiving his own soul.”

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Attributed to Apollonius in Philostratus, Life of Apollonius. Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000). On Hinduism: Reviews and reflections, Chapter India and Greece

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