Heraclitus' Fragments and other online goodies (was Re: hO LOGOS)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Oct 29 16:22:51 EST 1998
At 2:09 PM -0800 10/29/98, LisaM/GeorgeB wrote:
>"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:
>
>> [Heraclitus wrote:]
>> "You can't step into the same river twice."
>
>My memory of this fragment is a little different, although this is the
>way it is normally transmitted in English. As I am recalling, it is
>more like: "Through the same river different waters flow."
>
>Watching a river is a good thing...
DK22B49a POTAMOIS TOIS AUTOIS EMBAINOMEN TE KAI OUK EMBAINOMEN, EIMEN TE
KAI OUK EIMEN. "In the same rivers we both step and do not step, we are and
we are not." or, the version offered in DK: "In dieselben Fluesse steigen
wir und steigen wir nicht, wir sind und wir sind nicht."
Carl W. Conrad
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