Heraclitus – Fragments
- XXXIX.—Cold becomes warm, and warm, cold ; wet becomes dry, and dry, wet.
- XL.—lt disperses and gathers, it comes and goes.
- XLI.—Into the same river you could not step twice, for other <and still other> waters are flowing.
- XLII.—To those entering the same river, other and still other waters flow.
- LXXXI.—Into the same river we both step and do not step. We both are and are not.
- Seneca, Epist. 58. Context :—And I, while I say these things are changed, am myself changed. This is what Heraclitus means when he says, into the same river we descend twice and do not descend, for the name of the river remains the same, but the water has flowed on. This in the case of the river is more evident than in case of man, but none the less does the swift course carry us on.
Yoann Bazin 