Zeno of Citium
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- Note: Zeno of Citium should not be confused with Zeno of Elea.
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Zeno of Citium
Zeno is also the first utopian anarchist in the west and thus an important precursor of the anarchism we know today. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Isaiah Berlin describes Zeno's beliefs as follows
- Men are rational, they do not need control; rational beings have no need of a state, or of money, or of law-courts, or of any organised, institutional life. In the perfect society men and women shall wear identical clothes and feed in a common pasture.
There is a crater on the Moon named in his honor.
Quotes attributed to Zeno of Citium
- "Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible."
- "Follow where reason leads."
- "Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue." (while drunk on wine)
- "We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say."bg:Зенон от Китион
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