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„Sie verstehen nicht, wie das eine auseinanderstrebend ineinanderstrebt, wie gegeneinanderstrebend sich Bogen und Leier verbinden.“

Fragmente, B 123
Original altgriech.: "φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ."

„Alles fließt, nichts bleibt.“

Fragmente, B 51
Original altgriech.: "οὐ ξυνιᾶσιν ὅκως διαφερόμενον ἑωυτῶι συμφέρεται· παλίντονος ἁρμονίη ὅκωσπερ τόξου καὶ λύρη."

„Denn Augen sind genauere Zeugen als die Ohren.“

Vorsokratiker:58, mit Hinweis auf Aristoteles, Metaphysik i 6
Original altgriech.: "πάντα ῥεῖ, οὐδὲν μένει." Transkription "panta rhei, ouden menei."
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„Das Sittliche setzt das Natürliche voraus.“

„Alles, was lebt, wird mit Gottes Geißel auf die Weide getrieben.“

„Das Widerstrebende fügt sich zusammen wie ein gespannter Bogen.“

„Einer gilt mir zehntausend, falls er der Beste ist.“

„Alles fließt.“

„Der Herr, der das Orakel in Delphi besitzt, sagt nichts und birgt nichts, sondern er deutet an.“

„Alle menschlichen Gesetze werden von dem Einen Göttlichen genährt, das alles beherrscht und allem genügt.“

“Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (1942–1943)”

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“The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.”

“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”

Fragment 5, as translated by G. W. T. Patrick
Numbered fragments
Quelle: Clement, Stromates, II, 8, 1

“All entities move and nothing remains still.”

“Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.”

As quoted by Plato in Cratylus, 401d

“Corpses are more fit to be cast out than dung.”

in Eric Hoffer, Between the Devil and the Dragon (New York: 1982), p. 107

“The road up and the road down is one and the same.”

Fragment 96
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“Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.”

Fragment 60
Variant translations:
The road up and the road down are one and the same.
The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
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“All human laws are nourished by one divine law.”

Fragment 12
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Fragment 114
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“Character is destiny.”

“Of Every One-Hundred Men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters… We are lucky to have them… They make the battle. Ah but the One, One of them is a Warrior… and He will bring the others back.”

Fragment 119
Variant translations:
Character is fate.
Man's character is his fate.
A man's character is his fate.
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
One's bearing shapes one's fate.
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“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”

Attributed to "Hericletus c. 500 B.C." [sic] in The Tactical Rifle https://books.google.com/books?id=xO7XAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22They+make+the+battle.+Ah+but+the+One%2C+One+of+them+is+a+Warrior%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22He+will+bring+the+others+back%22 (1999) by Gabriel Suarez; no earlier source has been found. <br class="br">Misattributed

“Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.”

Fragment 67
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“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.”

“There is nothing permanent except change.”