Fragments
Heraclitus, Fragments
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It is wise to listen, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one.
(10) Nature loves to hide.
(32) The sun is new every day.
(3) Fools when they do hear are like the deaf: of them does the saying bear witness that they are absent when present.
Therefore it is necessary to follow the common; but although the Logos is common the many live as though they had a private understanding.
(87-89) A man may be a grandfather in thirty years.
In the same river, we both step and do not step, we are and we are not. Heraclitus (Fragment 49a)
What we saw and grasped, that we leave behind; but what we did not see and did not grasp, that we bring. Heraclitus (Fragment 56)
(66) The bow is called life, but its work is death.
(67) Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one. Living the others' death and dying the others' life.
(68) For it is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But water comes from earth; and from water, soul.
(69) The way up and the way down is one and the same.
(70) In the circumference of a circle the beginning and end are common.
(55) Every beast is driven to pasture with blows.
(115) Dogs bark at every one they do not know.
(18) Of all whose discussions I have heard, there is not one who attains to understanding that wisdom is apart from all.