“I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world.”

— Apollonius of Tyana

Quoted from Ram Swarup (2000). On Hinduism: Reviews and reflections, Chapter India and Greece
Different translation: In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing. quoted in The Transition to a Global Society (1991) by Kishor Gandhi, p. 17, and in The Age of Elephants (2006) by Peter Moss, p. v

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Ancient Greek philosopher 15–100

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