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Philo von Alexandria

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Andere Namen: Philon von Alexandria

Philon von Alexandria war ein einflussreicher jüdischer Philosoph und Theologe. Er ist der bekannteste Denker des hellenistischen Judentums. Wikipedia

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„Wie Blinde zu gut Sehenden, so verhalten sich die, die nie eine Reise gemacht haben, zu Vielgereisten.“

— Philo von Alexandria

Über Abraham 14

„It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; […] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.“

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— Philo

Allegories of the Sacred Laws (Legum allegoriae), Book I, §2; tr. C. D. Yonge, The works of Philo Judaeus (1854), Vol. 1, pp. 52–53.

„And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.“

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— Philo

71.
Every Good Man is Free

„Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.“

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— Philo

Attributed to Philo in How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir (1999) by Dan Wakefield. It has also been wrongly attributed to Plato and Ephrem the Syrian. It is a variant of the Christmas message "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle," written by the Scottish preacher Ian Maclaren (also known as John Watson) in 1897.
Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/.
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„Moses … takes one form of desire, that one whose field of activity is the belly, and admonishes and disciplines it as the first step, holding that the other forms will cease to run riot as before and will be restrained by having learnt that their senior and as it were the leader of their company is obedient to the laws of temperance.“

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— Philo

77.
On the Special Laws

„As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do [poets] in public life to their cities.“

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— Philo

143.
Every Good Man is Free

„The road that leads to pleasure is downhill and very easy, with the result that one does not walk but is dragged along; the other which leads to self-control is uphill, toilsome no doubt but profitable exceedingly. The one carries us away, forced lower and lower as it drives us down its steep incline, till it flings us off on to the level ground at its foot; the other leads heavenwards the immortal who have not fainted on the way and have had the strength to endure the roughness of the hard ascent.“

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— Philo

77.
On the Special Laws