Heraclitus of Ephesus was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire.
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586 BC - 526 BC
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"What I understood was fine, and no doubt also what I didn't understand; but it needs a diver to get to the bottom of it." About Heraclitus book."
"Toward old age, except of course for a certain few, they are far more extinguished than Heraclitus' sun, inasmuch as they are not rekindled again."*Heraclitus, according to Aristotle, said: ". . . Every day the sun is new" (Aristotle, Meteorologica, ii, 2.9)"
Book & Page: Plato's Republic [Allan Bloom's translation] F. 498b
#Quotes"'What I understood was fine, and no doubt also what I didn't understand; but it needs a diver to get to the bottom of it.'" About Heraclitus book.
Book & Page: Guthrie,W.K.C. A History Of Greek Philosophy, Vol.1 p.412
#Facts"Heraclitus, too, says that the principle is soul, if indeed it is the exhalation from which he constructs the other things. And he says that it is the most incorporeal thing and is always flowing, and that what is in movement is known by what is in movement. And he, along with many, believed that existing things depend on movement."
Book & Page: Aristotle On the soul (Oxford) p.7
#Quotes"Heraclitus that ‘It is what opposes that helps’"
Book & Page: Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics, (Oxford) p.143
#Quotes#Agrees"Each animal is thought to have a proper pleasure, as it has a proper function; namely, that which corresponds to its activity. If we survey then species by species, too, this will be evident; horses, dog, and man have different pleasures, as Heraclitus says ‘asses would prefer sweepings to gold’."
Book & Page: Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford) p192
#Quotes#Agrees"Again, it is harder to fight against pleasure than anger, to use Heraclitus phrase, but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder, for even the good is better when it is harder."
Book & Page: Aristotle Metaphysics Translated by W. D. Ross p.28
#Quotes#Agrees"Wherefore those who have thought that fire is the substance of things, and that the whole sum is composed of fire alone, are seen to fall very far from true reasoning. Heraclitus their leader who first enters the fray, bright fame for his dark sayings, yet rather among the empty-headed than among the Greeks of weight, who seek after the truth. For fool. Laud and love all things more which they can descry hidden beneath twisted Sayings, and they aet up for true what can tickle the ear with a pretty sound and i. tricked out with a smart ring."
Book & Page: Lucretius pdf p.48
#Disagree"Moreover, to say that fire is all things, and that there is no other real thing in the whole count of things, but only fire, as this same Heraclitus does, seems to be raving frenzy"
Book & Page: Lucretius pdf p.50
#Disagree"This is what Heraclitus says: we do and do not enter the same river twice. The name of the river stays the same, the water has passed on. This is more apparent in a river than in a human being, but a current no less rapid sweeps us along, too. And so I am puzzled by our madness, in that we are so in love with a thing so fleeting—our body—and fear that we might die someday when in fact every moment is the death of a prior state. You oughtn’t to be afraid that what happens daily might happen once"
Book & Page: Guthrie,W.K.C. A History Of Greek Philosophy, Vol.1 p.412
#Quotes"Heraclitus, after many a learned discourse on how the world would be destroyed by fire, became overfilled with water, and died besmeared with cow-dung."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.17
#Facts"Always remember the saying of Heraclitus, that the death of earth is birth of water and the death of water is birth of air, and that of air for fire, and conversely. Remember, too, his saying about the man who forgets where his road is leading, and this:’they are at variance with that which they have the most constant communion’, the reason the governs the universe, and again, that we should not ‘act and speak like those who are asleep’ (for even in our sleep we seem to act and speak’, that is to say, simply accept things ‘as we have received them’."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.32
#Agrees"For what is in a continual state of flux, cannot be grasped with any degree of certitude, for it passes away ere the mind can form a judgment thereon: according to the saying of Heraclitus, that "it is not possible twice to touch a drop of water in a passing torrent," as the Philosopher relates (Metaph. iv, Did. iii, 5)."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.17
#Quotes"For the more difficult it is to resist the passion, the less grievous, apparently, is incontinence: wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 7): "It is not wonderful, indeed it is pardonable if a person is overcome by strong and overwhelming pleasures or pains." Now, "as Heraclitus says, it is more difficult to resist desire than anger" [Ethic. ii. 3]. Therefore, incontinence of desire is less grievous than incontinence of anger."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.32
#Agrees#Quotes"Toward old age, except of course for a certain few, they are far more extinguished than Heraclitus' sun, inasmuch as they are not rekindled again."*Heraclitus, according to Aristotle, said: ". . . Every day the sun is new" (Aristotle, Meteorologica, ii, 2.9)"
Book & Page: Plato's Republic [Allan Bloom's translation] F. 498b
#Quotes"Heraclitus, too, says that the principle is soul, if indeed it is the exhalation from which he constructs the other things. And he says that it is the most incorporeal thing and is always flowing, and that what is in movement is known by what is in movement. And he, along with many, believed that existing things depend on movement."
Book & Page: Aristotle On the soul (Oxford) p.7
#Quotes"Heraclitus that ‘It is what opposes that helps’"
Book & Page: Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics, (Oxford) p.143
#Quotes"Each animal is thought to have a proper pleasure, as it has a proper function; namely, that which corresponds to its activity. If we survey then species by species, too, this will be evident; horses, dog, and man have different pleasures, as Heraclitus says ‘asses would prefer sweepings to gold’."
Book & Page: Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford) p192
#Quotes"Again, it is harder to fight against pleasure than anger, to use Heraclitus phrase, but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder, for even the good is better when it is harder."
Book & Page: Aristotle Metaphysics Translated by W. D. Ross p.28
#Quotes"This is what Heraclitus says: we do and do not enter the same river twice. The name of the river stays the same, the water has passed on. This is more apparent in a river than in a human being, but a current no less rapid sweeps us along, too. And so I am puzzled by our madness, in that we are so in love with a thing so fleeting—our body—and fear that we might die someday when in fact every moment is the death of a prior state. You oughtn’t to be afraid that what happens daily might happen once"
Book & Page: Guthrie,W.K.C. A History Of Greek Philosophy, Vol.1 p.412
#Quotes"For what is in a continual state of flux, cannot be grasped with any degree of certitude, for it passes away ere the mind can form a judgment thereon: according to the saying of Heraclitus, that "it is not possible twice to touch a drop of water in a passing torrent," as the Philosopher relates (Metaph. iv, Did. iii, 5)."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.17
#Quotes"For the more difficult it is to resist the passion, the less grievous, apparently, is incontinence: wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 7): "It is not wonderful, indeed it is pardonable if a person is overcome by strong and overwhelming pleasures or pains." Now, "as Heraclitus says, it is more difficult to resist desire than anger" [Ethic. ii. 3]. Therefore, incontinence of desire is less grievous than incontinence of anger."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.32
#Quotes"Heraclitus that ‘It is what opposes that helps’"
Book & Page: Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics, (Oxford) p.143
#Agrees"Each animal is thought to have a proper pleasure, as it has a proper function; namely, that which corresponds to its activity. If we survey then species by species, too, this will be evident; horses, dog, and man have different pleasures, as Heraclitus says ‘asses would prefer sweepings to gold’."
Book & Page: Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford) p192
#Agrees"Again, it is harder to fight against pleasure than anger, to use Heraclitus phrase, but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder, for even the good is better when it is harder."
Book & Page: Aristotle Metaphysics Translated by W. D. Ross p.28
#Agrees"This is what Heraclitus says: we do and do not enter the same river twice. The name of the river stays the same, the water has passed on. This is more apparent in a river than in a human being, but a current no less rapid sweeps us along, too. And so I am puzzled by our madness, in that we are so in love with a thing so fleeting—our body—and fear that we might die someday when in fact every moment is the death of a prior state. You oughtn’t to be afraid that what happens daily might happen once"
Book & Page: Guthrie,W.K.C. A History Of Greek Philosophy, Vol.1 p.412
#Agrees"Always remember the saying of Heraclitus, that the death of earth is birth of water and the death of water is birth of air, and that of air for fire, and conversely. Remember, too, his saying about the man who forgets where his road is leading, and this:’they are at variance with that which they have the most constant communion’, the reason the governs the universe, and again, that we should not ‘act and speak like those who are asleep’ (for even in our sleep we seem to act and speak’, that is to say, simply accept things ‘as we have received them’."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.32
#Agrees"For the more difficult it is to resist the passion, the less grievous, apparently, is incontinence: wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 7): "It is not wonderful, indeed it is pardonable if a person is overcome by strong and overwhelming pleasures or pains." Now, "as Heraclitus says, it is more difficult to resist desire than anger" [Ethic. ii. 3]. Therefore, incontinence of desire is less grievous than incontinence of anger."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.32
#Agrees"Wherefore those who have thought that fire is the substance of things, and that the whole sum is composed of fire alone, are seen to fall very far from true reasoning. Heraclitus their leader who first enters the fray, bright fame for his dark sayings, yet rather among the empty-headed than among the Greeks of weight, who seek after the truth. For fool. Laud and love all things more which they can descry hidden beneath twisted Sayings, and they aet up for true what can tickle the ear with a pretty sound and i. tricked out with a smart ring."
Book & Page: Lucretius pdf p.48
#Disagree"Moreover, to say that fire is all things, and that there is no other real thing in the whole count of things, but only fire, as this same Heraclitus does, seems to be raving frenzy"
Book & Page: Lucretius pdf p.50
#Disagree"'What I understood was fine, and no doubt also what I didn't understand; but it needs a diver to get to the bottom of it.'" About Heraclitus book.
Book & Page: Guthrie,W.K.C. A History Of Greek Philosophy, Vol.1 p.412
#Facts"Heraclitus, after many a learned discourse on how the world would be destroyed by fire, became overfilled with water, and died besmeared with cow-dung."
Book & Page: Marcus Aurelius (Penguin) p.17
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