To paraphrase Heraclitus, what is in conflict actually is consensus, in a harmony of opposites, of tensions. From Wordnik.com. [Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy] Reference
In Novalis the idea of a marriage of the seasons recalls Heraclitus as well as prefiguring the Eternal Return. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Borges's poem "Heraclitus" translated by Thomas Frick. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Birthday Señor Borges] Reference
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead. From Wordnik.com. [Ionica] Reference
Heraclitus observed that change is the only constant. From Wordnik.com. ['The World' Goes It Alone] Reference
Heraclitus 'supposed denial of the law of contradiction. From Wordnik.com. [SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY] Reference
Heraclitus of Ephesus, who lived in the 6th century B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Plato and Aristotle, dashed with the physics of Heraclitus. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
First time I've seen Heraclitus quoted on a political blog. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Says He'll Bring "Every Pressure To Bear" To Stop Obama/Wright Ad -- But It's Still Set To Run] Reference
"You cannot step twice into the same river," said Heraclitus. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
It was the birth-place of Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
Page 128, Volume 1 being; for Heraclitus it was continuous change. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
However, the victory of the sons of Heraclitus was hotly disputed. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC IMAGES] Reference
We are often told that Heraclitus once said, "character is destiny.". From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Wall St. Reforms: Timid at Best] Reference
“You shall not go down twice to the same river,” Heraclitus wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Jesus, Borges, Jelly Roll] Reference
The theories of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, etc. are refuted; i. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
The ancient philosopher Heraclitus once said that "Character is destiny.". From Wordnik.com. [Tim O'Reilly: Why I Support Barack Obama] Reference
Hegel, like Heraclitus, believed in conflict, albeit for different reasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Role of Anytus] Reference
Democritus was as much a philosopher as Heraclitus, and he lived fifty years longer. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
"Character is destiny," remarked the Greek philosopher Heraclitus in the 6th Century B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Ronald J. Colombo: A Crisis of Character] Reference
I'd like to offer such a paradoxical statement by the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Lurie: The Promise of Uncertainty] Reference
Against this life-affirming backdrop, Heraclitus also said, "The sun is new again, all day.". From Wordnik.com. [Alex Pattakos: Are You A Prisoner Of Your Thoughts?] Reference
As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus so elegantly put it almost 2,500 years ago: "Character is fate.". From Wordnik.com. [Dov Seidman: Philosophy Is Back in Business] Reference
In one of his gnomic apothegms, the Greek sage Heraclitus said that the way forward is the way back. From Wordnik.com. [Classical Realism: Antidote to 'Novelty Art'] Reference
Heraclitus, and the Pythagoreans, chose to stand un - compromisingly against the religious tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Meanwhile it had become clear to such Greek phi - losophers as Heraclitus, Empedocles, and perhaps the. From Wordnik.com. [NATURE] Reference
The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
Heraclitus signs his contract with a shudder, and trembles as he places his realized premium in the bank. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
In order to understand this conception we must return again to the sharply contrasting views of Parmenides and Heraclitus. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Perhaps the earliest recorded expression of this paradox is Heraclitus 'ob - servation that much learning does not teach wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [WISDOM OF THE FOOL] Reference
Chrysippus, following Heraclitus, taught that the elements passed into one another by a process of condensation and rarefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Anyway, as Heraclitus said and American history confirms, change is one of life's constants, whether or not presidents desire it. From Wordnik.com. [So, The Culprits Are Now The Cure?] Reference
Heraclitus, with his sense of bodily forms as things of ceaseless process and passage, knows the One as eternal and intellectual. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Early Greek philosophy reveals the survival of such notions especially in fragments of Anaximander, Par - menides, and Heraclitus. From Wordnik.com. [CAUSATION] Reference
You can't bring back the past -- or as Heraclitus said (or was it the Jimmy Castor Bunch?), you can't step in the same river twice. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Sachs: The New New York Dolls Ain't Just Recycling Trash] Reference
No matter how hard you try, you can rest assured, according to Heraclitus, that you really won't walk through the same river twice. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Pattakos: Are You A Prisoner Of Your Thoughts?] Reference
Heraclitus sells -- Democritus holds; and thus the great point of wisdom at issue between them, is reduced to a mere question of time. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Then Heraclitus as lieutenant began to gouerne Britaine (as writeth Spartianus) being sent thither by Seuerus for that purpose before. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England] Reference
Thither shall we after many changes, where so many brave orators are; where so many grave philosophers; Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Socrates. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
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