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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Page 84 - Law (of the universe) is as here explained; but men are always incapable of understanding it, both before they hear it, and when they have heard it for the first time.
Page 89 - This world, the same for all, neither any of the gods nor any man has made, but it always was, and is, and shall be, an ever-living fire, kindled in due measure and in due measure extinguished.
Page 90 - In his opinion want is the process of arrangement, and satiety the process of conflagration. 25. Fire lives in the death of earth, and air lives in the death of fire ; water lives in the death of air, and earth in that of water.
Page 86 - Gen. iv. 1, p. 237, Aucher.: Arbor est secundum Heraclitum natura nostra, quae se obducere atque abscondere amat.
Page 88 - Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchos, prosecuted investigations more than any other man, and [selecting these treatises] he made a wisdom of his own — much learning and bad art.
Page 104 - Into the same river we both step and do not step. We both are and are not.' (Heraclitus, Fragments). Fluxus represents a sort of continuation of the ironic uprisings and methods in art matter begun by Yves Klein and Manzoni - the extension of an American style Happening.
Page 1 - Pfleiderer (Die Philosophie des Heraklit von Ephesus im Lichte der Mysterienidee, Berlin 1886) ein, indem er zwischen Schuster und der vor ihm herrschenden Ansicht vermittelt.
Page iii - All thoughts, all creeds, all dreams are true, All visions wild and strange; Man is the measure of all truth Unto himself. All truth is change...
Page 94 - Heracleitus is supposed to say that all things are in motion and nothing at rest; he compares them to the stream of a river, and says that you cannot go into the same water twice.