"He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies."
About Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laërtius was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving work, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, remains a primary source for the history of ancient Greek philosophy. His reputation is controversial among scholars because he often repeats information from his sources without critically evaluating it.
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