Heraclitus: Thing

Heraclitus is pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on thing.

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“And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old.”

Fragment 88
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“Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.”

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Fragment 10
Variant translation: From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
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“It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.”

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Fragment 110
Variant translation: It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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“Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.”

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As quoted Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 140, 6 (Fragment 35)

“For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.”

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G.T.W. Patrick, 1889 http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm Variant: For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

“It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.”

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Fragment 50, as translated in the Loeb Classics edition http://www.loebclassics.com/view/heracleitus_philospher-universe/1931/pb_LCL150.471.xml?rskey=IyhfrN&result=8 Variant translations: Listening not to me but to reason, it is wise to agree that all is one. Listening not to me but to the Word it is wise to agree that all things are one. He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one. It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one. The word translated in these quotes and many others as "The Word" or "Reason", is the greek word λόγος (Logos). Numbered fragments

“Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.”

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Fragment 93
Friedrich Nietzsche's translation: The law under which most of them ceaselessly have commerce they reject for themselves. (The Pre-Platonic Philosophers, Chapter 10)]
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“The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.”

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Fragment 5, as translated by G. W. T. Patrick
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Source: Clement, Stromates, II, 8, 1