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desire

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pleasure

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sleep

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world

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is the process through which things find repose.

It is in changing that things find repose. (Heraclitus fragments : 23)

is a process whereby opposites trade positions. Cold things become warm, and warm grows cold, the moist dries, the parched becomes moist.

Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool, the moist dries, the parched becomes moist. (Heraclitus fragments : 22)

is the constitution of all things. The fairest universe is but a heap of rubbish piled up at random.

The fairest universe is but a heap of rubbish piled up at random. (40) (heraclitus .pdf)

is that which we see when awake. When we are asleep it is dreams.

Death is what we see when awake , when we are asleep it is dreams. (Heraclitus fragments 16).

is impulsive. Whatever it wants it buys at the cost of the soul.

It is hard to fight against impulsive desire. Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul. (Heraclitus 51)

is, along with the eye, a bad witness to men with barbarian souls.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls. (heraclitus .pdf)

is, as well as the eye, a poor witness to people if they have uncultured souls.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

is a child playing, playing checkers... the kingdom belongs to the child.

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers... the kingdom belongs to the child.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

is, along with the ear, a bad witness to men with barbarian souls.

is the opposing of tensions, the result of the necessary struggle which is life.

In Heraclites harmonia is closely connected with the notion kosmos understood in the sense of world order and mundial structure. Things are connected via oppositions ('a back-stretched connection, as in the bow and the lyre', fr. 51 DK). This produces Harmony, Beauty and Life. There is no Life without Struggle, according to Heraclites

is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

is a thing possessing the name of life, but in reality is death.

Life has the name of life, but in reality is death.

is not rational. There is intelligence only in what encompasses him.

Man is not rational, there is intelligence only in what encompasses him. (Heraclitus fragments : 62)

is utterly foreign to God. To Him, all things are beautiful, good, and right. Men on the other hand, deem some things right and other things wrong.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right. Men, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. (heraclitus #106 .pdf)

is sometimes contextual. Sea water is at once pure and foul drinkable for fishes and deadly for men.

Sea water is at once very pure and very foul: it is drinkable and healthful for fishes, but undrinkable and deadly for men. (heraclitus 'fragments' 101)

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