It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. 45.Ħ2 We must know that war is common to all and strife is justice, and that all things come into being and pass away (? through strife.Ħ5 The wise is one only. all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right. The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one.Ħ1 To God [a god–J.G. 47 c.ĥ9 Couples are things whole and things not whole, what is drawn together and what is drawn asunder, the harmonious and the discordant. Fish can drink it, and it is good for them to men it is undrinkable and destructive. 34.Ĥ8 Let us not conjecture at random about the greatest things.Ĥ9 Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.ĥ2 The sea is the purest and the impurest water. 34.Ĥ6 It is the opposite which is good for us.Ĥ7 The hidden attunement is better than the open. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre. 34.Ĥ5 Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. 34 d.Ĥ4 War is the father of all and the king of all and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free. 33.Ĥ3 Homer was wrong in saying: “Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!” He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe for, if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away…. 39 b.ģ7 If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.ģ9 Cold things become warm, and what is warm cools what is wet dries, and the parched is moistened.Ĥ0 It scatters and it gathers it advances and retires.Ĥ1, 42 You cannot step twice into the same rivers for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you. 35 b.ģ6 God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger but he takes various shapes, just as fire, when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savor of each. 37.Ģ7 How can one hide from that which never sets?Ģ8 It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things. 35.Ģ5 Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire water lives the death of earth, earth that of water. 35 b.Ģ2 All things are an exchange for Fire, and Fire for all things, even as wares for gold and gold for wares. 35.Ģ1 The transformations of Fire are, first of all, sea and half of the sea is earth, half whirlwind…. 40.Ģ0 This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things. 42.ġ8 Of all whose discourses I have heard, there is not one who attains to understanding that wisdom is apart from all. 30 a.ġ3 The things that can be seen, heard, and learned are what I prize the most. 44 b.ġ1 The lord whose is the oracle at Delphi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign. 42.ĥ The many do not take heed of such things as those they meet with, nor do they mark them when they are taught, though they think they do.ħ If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.Ĩ Those who seek for gold dig up much earth and find a little. 32.Ĥ Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men if they have souls that understand not their language. But other men know not what they are doing when awake, even as they forget what they do in sleep. For, though all things come to pass in accordance with this Word, men seem as if they had no experience of them, when they make trial of words and deeds such as I set forth, dividing each thing according to its kind and showing how it truly is. 40.Ģ Though this Word (logos is true evermore, yet men are as unable to understand it when they hear it for the first time as before they have heard it at all. Jan Garrettġ It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word (logos), and to confess that all things are one. online at Early Greek Philosophy, Chapter 3A. From John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy, third ed., 1920, chapter 3 section a full rpt.
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