Fragment 92, as translated by G.W.T. Patrick, trans.
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Hérakleitos: Citáty v angličtine
Hérakleitos je grécky filozof. Citáty v angličtine.“And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old.”
Fragment 88
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“The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.”
Fragment 32
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“The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.”
Fragment 89
Plutarch, Of Superstition
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“You cannot step twice into the same rivers.”
ποταμῷ γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμβῆναι δὶς τῷ αὐτῷ
Fragment 91
Plutarch, On the EI at Delphi
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Varianta: You cannot step twice into the same rivers.
Fragment 30
Variant translations:
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by neither gods nor men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and regularly becoming extinguished.
This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out.
That which always was,
and is, and will be everlasting fire,
the same for all, the cosmos,
made neither by god nor man,
replenishes in measure
as it burns away.
Translated by Brooks Haxton
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“Greater fates gain greater rewards”
As quoted by 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. Page 108 https://books.google.com/books?id=gLxQZb3TMYgC&lpg=PA108&ots=RUCu2BIyRB&dq=Greater%20fates%20gain%20greater%20rewards.&pg=PA108#v=onepage&q=Greater%20fates%20gain%20greater%20rewards.&f=false
Alternative translation: Big results require big ambitions.
“Everything changes and nothing stands still.”
As quoted by Plato in Cratylus, 402a
Variants and variant translations:
Everything flows and nothing stays.
Everything flows and nothing abides.
Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Everything flows; nothing remains.
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
All is flux, nothing stays still.
All flows, nothing stays.
Πάντα ῥεῖ
Everything flows.
This statement occurs in Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, 1313.11; while some sources attribute to Simplicius the coining of the specific phrase "πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei)", meaning "everything flows/is in a state of flux", to characterize the concept in the philosophy of Heraclitus, the essential phrasing "everything changes" and variations on it, in contexts where Heraclitus's thought is being alluded to, was current in both Plato and Aristotle's writings.
“It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.”
As quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, Book II (1105a)
Fragment 10
Variant translation: From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
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“It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.”
Fragment 110
Variant translation: It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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“The many are mean; only the few are noble.”
in Eric Hoffer, Between the Devil and the Dragon (New York: 1982), p. 108
“He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.”
Fragment 18, as quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments (1981) edited by Charles H. Kahn, p. 105
Variants:
He who does not expect the unexpected will not find it out.
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments (1981) edited by Charles H. Kahn, p. 129
He who does not expect the unexpected will not find it, since it is trackless and unexplored.
As quoted in Helen by Euripides, edited by William Allan (2008), p. 278
Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.
Rendering ἐὰν μή "unless" is more English-friendly without being inaccurate. As for the last clause, the point is that you can neither find it nor navigate your way through it. The alpha-privatives suggest using similar metaphoric adjectives to keep the Greek 'feel.' (S. N. Jenks, 2014)
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“It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.”
Fragment 109
Variant translation: Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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“Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.”
As quoted Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 140, 6 (Fragment 35)
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“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”
As translated by Philip Wheelwright in Heraclitus (1959) https://archive.org/details/heraclitus00whee
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