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“To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.”
― Fragments
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.”
― Fragments
“All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.”
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“Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.”
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“You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same.”
― The fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on nature; translated from the Greek text of Bywater, with an introd. historical and critical
― The fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on nature; translated from the Greek text of Bywater, with an introd. historical and critical
“If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely changeable. For it was from this supposition that there blossomed forth the most extreme view of those which we have mentioned, that of the professed followers of Heraclitus, and such as Cratylus held, who ended by thinking that one need not say anything, and only moved his finger; and who criticized Heraclitus for saying that one cannot enter the same river twice, for he himself held that it cannot be done even once.”
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“The life of the body is sustained by the breath which inhaled the dry vapors kindred fire. At night, when the sun is extinguished and the world becomes unconscious, we inhale the dark wet vapors and sink into death-like sleep.”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“It seems as if historicist ideas easily become prominent in times of great social change. They appeared when Greek tribal life broke up, as well as when that of the Jews was shattered by the impact of the Babylonian conquest. There can be little doubt, I believe, that Heraclitus’ philosophy is an expression of a feeling of drift; a feeling which seems to be a typical reaction to the dissolution of the ancient tribal forms of social life. In modern Europe, historicist ideas were revived during the industrial revolution, and especially through the impact of the political revolutions in America and France. It appears to be more than a mere coincidence that Hegel, who adopted so much of Heraclitus’ thought and passed it on to all modern historicist movements, was a mouthpiece of the reaction against the French Revolution.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
― The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s not the same country name and he’s not the same citizen.”
― Yet Another New Land
― Yet Another New Land
“Aquil que fun non son, por iso estamos
xuntos os dous. Aquil que entonces era
como un río fuxiu, pero quedouse
coma o río que pasa e sempre queda.”
― O Soño Sulagado
xuntos os dous. Aquil que entonces era
como un río fuxiu, pero quedouse
coma o río que pasa e sempre queda.”
― O Soño Sulagado
“No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
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