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Heraclitus in Raphael's School of Athens, thanks to CGFA: This site is a project putting the Greek fragments of Heraclitus on the web, together with English translations, text notes, and categorical links.
May 15, 2024 · Fragments of Heraclitus (1920) by Heraclitus, translated by John Burnet. →. related portals: Ancient Greek philosophy. sister projects: Wikidata item. Fragments from Chapter 3 of Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet, unless otherwise noted.
This paper contains all the fragments which can authoritatively be ascribed to Heraclitus, following the listing in Diels-Kranz "Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker" 5 ed. l934, and reprints.
Jan 18, 2012 · Heraclitus of Ephesos (l. c. 500 BCE) was an early Pre-Socratic philospher who claimed that the First Cause of existence was fire and that life itself was characterized by strife and change.
As indeed Heraclitus says: Living and dead, awake and asleep, young and old, are the same. For these several states are transmutations of each other. 79 Time is a child playing at draughts, a child's kingdom.
Fragments. By Heraclitus. Translated by John Burnet, Arthur Fairbanks, and Kathleen Freeman. Fragment 1: DK 22B1 [2 Byw.] Sextus Empiricus, Contre les mathématiciens, VII 132 [s. A 16.] [JB]1 Though this Word is true evermore, yet men are as unable to understand it when they hear it for the first time as before they have heard it at all.
He wrote a single work, only fragments of which have survived, catalogued under philosopher number 22 in the Diels–Kranz numbering system. Already in antiquity, his paradoxical philosophy, appreciation for wordplay, and cryptic, oracular epigrams earned him the epithets "the dark" and "the obscure".
Heraclitus' own words, in his tantalizing and suggestive form of enigmatic utterance. The Greek text is given here together with the translation, since any interpretation is obliged to make continual reference to the orig-inal wording. And I think it should be possible to read the fragments in a meaningful order, even if one reads them in Greek.
Explore the ancient wisdom of Heraclitus through his original Greek fragments and English translations, with text notes and categorical links.
Heraclitus of Ephesus (/ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs/; Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c. 535 – c. 475 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, [2] then part of the Persian Empire. He was of distinguished parentage.
