The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their worksFairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy
The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their works
Fairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy, Ancient
130a. If they are gods, why do ye lament them? And if ye lament them, no
longer consider them gods.
The fragment in the critical notes reads: ‘To images of gods
they pray, to those who do not hear, as though they might hear;
to those who do not answer, as though they might not make
request.’
131. All things are full of souls and of divine spirits.
132. He was wont to say that false opinion is a sacred disease, and that
vision is deceitful.
133. Each one who has come to be esteemed without due grounds, ought to
hide his face.
134. False opinion of progress is the stoppage of progress.
135. Their education is a second sun to those that have been educated.
136. As food is timely in famine, so opportune favour heals the need of
the soul.
137. The same one was wont to say that the shortest way to glory was to
become good.
138. Timaios wrote thus: So Pythagoras does not appear to have
discovered the true art of words, nor yet the one accused by
Herakleitos, but Herakleitos himself is the one who is the
pretender.
PASSAGES IN PLATO AND ARISTOTLE REFERRING TO HERAKLEITOS.
Plato, _Theaet._ 160 D. Homer, and Herakleitos, and the whole company
which say that all things are in motion and in a state of flux. Cf. 152 D
H.
_Kratylos_, 401 D. According to Herakleitos all things are in motion and
nothing abides. Cf. 402 A, and frag. 41; also 412 D, 440 C.
_Plato also alludes to fragments 32, 45, 98-99._
Aristotle: _Topica_ i. 11, 104 f 21. All things are in motion, according
to Herakleitos.
_Top._ viii. 5; 155 f 30. Wherefore those that hold different opinions,
as that good and bad are the same thing, as Herakleitos says, do not
grant that the opposite cannot coexist with itself; not as though
they did not think this to be the case, but because as followers of
Herakleitos they are obliged to speak as they do.
_Phys._ i. 2; 185 b 19. But still, if in the argument all things that
exist are one, as a cloak or a himation, it turns out that they are
stating the position of Herakleitos; for the same thing will apply to
good and bad, and to good and not-good, so that good and not-good, and
man and horse, will be the same; and they will not be arguing that all
things are one, but that they are nothing, and that the same thing
applies to such and to so much.
_Phys._ iii. 5; 205 a 3. As Herakleitos says that all things sometime
become fire.
_De coelo_ i. 10; 279 b 16. And others in their turn say that sometimes
combination is taking place, and at other times destruction, and that
this will always continue, as Empedokles of Agrigentum, and Herakleitos
of Ephesos.
_De anima_ i. 2; 405 a 25. And Herakleitos also says that the first
principle is soul, as it were a fiery exhalation, of which all other
things consist; for it is the least corporeal and always in a state of
flux, and the moving is known by the moving; and he agreed with most
thinkers in holding that things are in motion.
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