Full Idea
Wisdom and power of thought, know thou, are shared in by all things.
Gist of Idea
Wisdom and thought are shared by all things
Source
Empedocles (fragments/reports [c.453 BCE]), quoted by Sextus Empiricus - Against the Logicians (two books) II.286
Book Reference
Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Logicians', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.389
A Reaction
Sextus quotes this, saying that it is 'still more paradoxical', and that it explicitly includes plants. This may mean that Empedocles was not including inanimate matter.