Heracleitus · Atlas

in the texts

Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

Pre-Socratic philosopher cited for a saying about the difficulty of fighting anger.

(8) And again, it is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger (hard as that is, as Heracleitus says);

witness Heracleitus.

Heracleitus says, Opposition unites, and The fairest harmony springs from difference, and’Tis strife that makes the world go on.

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CratylusClassical · Greek

Pre-Socratic philosopher credited with the doctrine that all things are in constant motion, invoked as the model for several etymologies.

What do you mean by that?

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Well, don’t you think he who gave to the ancestors of the other gods the names Rhea and Cronus had the same thought as Heracleitus?

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I seem to have a vision of Heracleitus saying some ancient words of wisdom as old as the reign of Cronus and Rhea, which Homer said too.

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TheaetetusClassical · Greek

Philosopher grouped among those who hold that all things are in flux and motion.

And on this subject all the philosophers, except Parmenides, may be marshalled in one line—Protagoras and Heracleitus and Empedocles—and the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry, Epicharmus, in comedy, and in tragedy, Homer, who, in the line 0ceanus the origin of the gods, and Tethys their mother, has said that all things are the offspring of flow and motion;

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for the disciples of Heracleitus are supporting this doctrine very vigorously.

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but I fancy they utter such peaceful doctrines at leisure to those pupils whom they wish to make like themselves.

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