The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
By Diogenes Laertius
Classic work by Diogenes Laertius.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 3 THALES 14 SOLON 23 CHILO 32 PITTACUS ...
ANAXIMANDER 57 ANAXIMENES 57 ARCHELAUS 62 SOCRATES 63 XENOPHON ...
SPEUSIPPUS 152 XENOCRATES 154 POLEMO 158 CRATES 160 CRANTOR ...
ARISTOTLE 181 THEOPHRASTUS 194 STRATO 202 LYCON 205 DEMETRIUS ...
ANTISTHENES 217 DIOGENES 224 MONIMUS 248 ONESICRITUS 249 CRATES ...
ZENO 259 ARISTON 318 HERILLUS 320 DIONYSIUS 321 CLEANTHES ...
PYTHAGORAS 338 EMPEDOCLES 359 EPICHARMUS 368 ARCHYTAS 369 ALCMÆON ...
HERACLITUS 376 XENOPHANES 382 PARMENIDES 384 MELISSUS 386 ZENO, THE ELEATI...
EPICURUS 424 PREFACE. Diogenes, the author of the following work, was a native (as is generally believed) of Laërte, in Cilicia, from which circumstance h...
INTRODUCTION. I. Some say that the study of philosophy originated with the barbarians. In that among the Persians there existed the Magi,[1] and among the Babylonians or Assyrians...
LIFE OF ANAXIMANDER. I. Anaximander, the son of Praxiadas, was a citizen of Miletus. II. He used to assert that the principle and primary element of all things was the Infinity, ...
LIFE OF PLATO. I. Plato was the son of Ariston and Perictione or Potone, and a citizen of Athens; and his mother traced her family back to Solon; for Solon had a brother named Dro...
and to embrace and things of that kind. The passionate part is the cause of men feeling confidence and delight, and grief and anger. The soul therefore is divided into the reasonin...
LIFE OF SPEUSIPPUS. I. The long account which I have given of Plato was compiled to the best of my power, and in it I collected with great zeal and industry all that was reported ...
LIFE OF ARISTOTLE. I. Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus and Phæstias, a citizen of Stagira; and Nicomachus was descended from Nicomachus, the son of Machaon, the son of Æsculapi...
LIFE OF ANTISTHENES. I. Antisthenes was an Athenian, the son of Antisthenes. And he was said not to be a legitimate Athenian; in reference to which he said to some one who was rep...
on the Pro-creation of Children, or on Marriage, an essay of an amatory character; on the Sophists, an essay of a physiognomical character; on Justice and Manly Virtue, being three...
LIFE OF ZENO. I. Zeno was the son of Mnaseas, or Demeas, and a native of Citium, in Cyprus, which is a Grecian city, partly occupied by a Phœnician colony. II. He had his head na...
LIFE OF PYTHAGORAS. I. Since we have now gone through the Ionian philosophy, which was derived from Thales, and the lives of the several illustrious men who were the chief ornamen...
LIFE OF HERACLITUS. I. Heraclitus was the son of Blyson, or, as some say, of Heracion, and a citizen of Ephesus. He flourished about the sixty-ninth olympiad. II. He was above al...
LIFE OF EPICURUS. I. Epicurus was an Athenian, and the son of Neocles and Chærestrate, of the burgh of Gargettus, and of the family of the Philaidæ, as Metrodorus tells us in his ...