Heraclitus

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Biography

Heraclitus was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both ancient and modern, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger.

Books by Heraclitus

The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature; Translated from the Greek Text of Bywater, with an Introduction Historical and Critical, by G. T. W. Patrick

The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature; Translated from the Greek Text of Bywater, with an Introduction Historical and Critical, by G. T. W. Patrick

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Quotes by Heraclitus

"Time is a game played beautifully by children."

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

"Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world."

"To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature."

"Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse."

"Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things."

"People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls."

"All are one"

"All is flux"

"People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre."

"All is flux; nothing stays still."

"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in."

"τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν"

"πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει"

"δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης."

"χαλεπώτερον ἡδονῇ μάχεσθαι ἢ θυμῷ"

"τὴν μεταβολὴν ὁδὸν ἄνω κάτω, τόν τε κόσμον γίνεσθαι κατ' αὐτήν."

"αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεσσεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη."

"χρὴ γὰρ εὖ μάλα πολλῶν ἴστορας φιλοσόφους ἄνδρας εἶναι"

"Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους."

"Τίς γὰρ αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρήν; [δήμων] ἀοιδοῖσι ἕπονται καὶ διδασκάλῳ χρέωνται ὁμίλῳ, οὐκ εἰδότες ὅτι πολλοὶ κακοὶ ὀλίγοι δὲ ἀγαθοί. αἱρεῦνται γὰρ ἓν ἀντία πάντων οἱ ἄριστοι, κλέος ἀέναον θνητῶν, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ κεκόρηνται ὅκωσπερ κτήνεα."

"Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth."

"Greater fates gain greater rewards"

"The many are mean; only the few are noble."

"τοῦ λόγου δ' ἐόντος ξυνοῦ ζώουσιν οἱ πολλοὶ ὡς ἰδίαν ἔχοντες φρόνησιν"