Creative Quotations from . . .
Heraclitus of Ephesus
(535?BC-475?BC) born on
Greek philosopher. "He was known as "The Weeping Philosopher.""
 
   
F
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

R
"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
A
"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult."
N
Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
K
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Herakleitos and Diogenes, pt. 1, fragment 3 (tr. by Guy Davenport, 1976)."
R: "The Cosmic Fragments, no. 36 (c. 480 B.C.)."
A:
N: "Cratylus," (Plato), 402a"
K:



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