Heraclitus

Heraclitus (c. 540-480 BCE)

“This world-order (kosmos) was made neither by god nor by man, but it was always and is and shall be; fire ever-living, being kindled by measures and being quenched by measures.”

  • From fragment 30 (b) of Heraclitus, translated by Diels-Kranz, c. 1951-52.

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