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Heraclitus : THE WORD IS COMMON

DK B 2, 10, 15, 18, 29, 30, 32, 40, 48, 49, 54, 57, 60, 62, 64, 80, 101, 108, 115, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123
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101
Searched I into myself.

108
Of those whose words I heard, none comes to this, to understand that the wise stands from everything apart.

115
The soul is founded on a self-growing word.

119
Conscience to man is God.

120
Dawn's and evening's endings is the bear, and opposite the bear tranquil Zeus' command.*

122
The breaking through.**

123
The bearing likes to hide. 

* Fragment 120: note that "οὖρος" means equally border, limit, definition and guardian.

** Fragment 122: Ἀγχιβασίη is a composit word, from anhi (ἄγχι - near, close) and vataio (βατέω - move ahead). Liddell-Scott seems to follow Suda's translation of anhivasie as questioning. A litteral translation would be rather, going-close, getting near, etc..

101
ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν.

108
ὁκόσων λόγους ἤκουσα͵ οὐδεὶς ἀφικνεῖται ἐς τοῦτο͵ ὥστε γινώσκειν ὅτι σοφόν ἐστι πάντων κεχωρισμένον.

115
ψυχῆς ἐστι λόγος ἑαυτὸν αὔξων.

119
ἦθος ἀνθρώπ δαίμων.

120
ἠοῦς καὶ ἑσπέρας τέρματα ἡ ἄρκτος καὶ ἀντίον τῆς ἄρκτου ο
ρος αἰθρίου Διός.

122
ἀγχιβασίην .

123
φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ.
 

Cf. XENOPHANES : God is totally different ||| PARMENIDES : Being is all there is ||| EMPEDOCLES : The Sphere ||| ANAXAGORAS : Nous ||| PLATO : Wisdom, We are a heavenly flower, Totalitarianism is ignorance, Tyranny and slavery, Disease and deformity of the soul ||| BASIL THE GREAT : A likeness of eternity ||| PAPATSONIS : Scheme, Hestia, Wisdom, In Rising Sound

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