Quote #12
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
More from Heraclitus
- It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
- The road up and the road down is one and the same.
- You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
- Logos is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
- When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.
- This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire,…
- Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.