Sextus empiricus quotes about moving

Sextus Empiricus (Σέξτος Ἐμπειρικός; c. 160 – c. 210 CE, dates uncertain), was a Pyrrhonist philosopher and a physician.

Quotes

• It is probable that those who seek after anything whatever, will either find it as they continue the search, will deny that it can be found and confess it to be out of reach, or will go on seeking it.

  Some have said, accordingly, in regard to the things sought in philosophy, that they have found the truth, while others have declared it impossible to find, and still others continue to seek it. Those who think that they have found it are those who are especially called Dogmatics, as for example, the Schools of Aristotle and Epicurus, the Stoics and some others.

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• The archaic tone of Bury's translation is particularly clear when dealing with one point, Sextus quotes from Euripides' Trojan Women.
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• The few references he makes to his involvement in the medical profession are as perplexing as they are en- lightening.
• The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.

Those who have declared it impossible to find are Clitomachus, Carneades, with their respective followers, and other Academicians. Those who still seek it are the Sceptics. It appears therefore, reasonable to conclude that the three principal kinds of philosophy are the Do