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The Stoics Also Teach That God Is Unity, And That He Is Called Mind And Fate And Jupiter, And By Many Other Names Besides.
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The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind
and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Zeno, lxviii
Related:
When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, xix...
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boethus say, that all things are produced by fate.
And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated....
He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristotle, xiii...
They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, lii...
They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational
perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe...
He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xl...
He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xvi...
He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Epicurus, xxv...