...insan dilinin ve arzularının hakimi değildir.
spinoza - etika
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"The substance of fire is of two kinds; ethereal fire, as we said just now, in the highest region of the universe, lacks nothing for perfection, whereas the substance of the fire that we possess, being terrestrial, is destructible and is repeatedly rekindled by the matter that feeds it. This is why Homer regularly calls the most brilliant fire “Sun” or “Zeus,” and the fire on earth which is readily kindled and extinguished “Hephaestus.” Compared with the complete fire, this fire is plausibly regarded as “lame.” Moreover, crippled feet always need a stick as support, and the fire we have, which could not last any long time without having wood put on it, is thus symbolically described as “lame.” Indeed, Homer elsewhere calls fire Hephaestus in plain words, not allegorically at all: They held the entrails, spitted, over Hephaestus. In saying that the entrails are roasted by Hephaestus, he uses metalepsis.
Homer’s representation of Hephaestus as “thrown down from heaven” is also scientific. For in the earliest times, when the use of fire was not yet common, men on occasion made use of certain bronze instruments that they had constructed to draw down sparks from above, positioning these instruments to face the sun at midday. This, I take it, is why Prometheus is believed to have stolen fire from heaven, since it was the forethought [prometheia] of human skill which contrived the flow of fire from there. Nor was it unreasonable for Homer to make Lemnos the place that first received the fire that came from the gods: for spontaneous flames of earth-born fire rise from the ground there. He makes it clear that this is the fire which is under consideration by adding “not much breath left in me”; for fire quickly fades and goes out if it does not secure the forethought that can keep it alive."
- Heraclitus, Homeric Problems
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Kendinizi başkasına anlatmayın. Sizi sevenin buna ihtiyacı yoktur. Sevmeyen de inanmayacaktır zaten.
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The most beautiful order of the world is still a random gathering of things insignificant in themselves.
––Herakleitos
[Guy Davenport version]
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En bilge insan tanrının karşısında bir maymundur, tıpkı en güzel maymunun insan karşısında çirkin olması gibi.
Bertrand Russell
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"Uykudayken ne yaptığını unutan insanlar gibi bunlar da uyanıkken ne yaptıklarının farkında değiller."
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lonaforizmaların kolektif kaynağını buldum...
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Förnuftet förenar oss med andra människor. Sinnena, däremot, skiljer oss. Vi uppfattar världen på olika sätt beroende på det perspektiv som för tillfället gäller. Vägen uppför och vägen nerför är, heter det i ett fragment [av Herakleitos], samma väg. Men för den som står däruppe förefaller vägen leda nedåt, för den därnere uppåt. Förnuftet visar emellertid att båda intrycken [är] falska: det är hela tiden samma väg, en insikt som sinnena i deras individuella begränsning aldrig kan nå.
Ronny Ambjörnsson, Europas idéhistoria. Antiken, Människors undran
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“Herakleitos gözyaşlarıyla,Demokritos ise kahkahasıyla öfkesini bastırdı” diyordu bir kitapta . Ben ne yapsam bastıramadım.
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aynı nehirlere girenlerin üzerinden daima farklı sular akar.
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If literature were nothing more than verbal algebra, anyone could produce any book by essaying variations. The lapidary formula ‘Everything flows’ abbreviates in two words the philosophy of Heraclitus: Raymond Lully would say that, with the first word given, it would be sufficient to essay the intransitive verbs to discover the second and obtain, thanks to methodical chance, that philosophy and many others. Here it is fitting to reply that the formula obtained by this process of elimination lacks all value, and even meaning; for it to have some virtue, we must conceive it in terms of Heraclitus, in terms of an experience of Heraclitus, even though ‘Heraclitus’ is nothing more than the presumed subject of that experience. I have said that a book is a dialogue, a form of relationship; in a dialogue an interlocutor is not the sum or average of what he says: he may not speak and still reveal that he is intelligent, he may admit intelligent observations and reveal his stupidity.
(Borges, from "A Note on (towards) Bernard Shaw," trans. James E. Irby)
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hiçbir melankolik yanım olmadığına göre, önemli biri sayılmamın olanağı yok.
cicero - catilina söylevi
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Herakleitos gözyaşlarıyla,Demokritos ise Kahkahalarıyla öfkesini bastırdı diyordu okuduğum bir kitapta.Fakat ben ne yaptımsa bastıramadım.
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Hep zengin kalasınız
Ey Ephesoslular
Belli olsun diye kötülüğünüz!
Kırık Taşlar, Herakleitos.....
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I love this excerpt from D.H Lawrence's Fantasia of the Unconscious "I am not a proper archeologist nor an anthropologist nor an ethnologist. I am no scholar of any sort. But I am very grateful to scholars for their sound work. I have found hints, suggestions for what I say here in all kinds of scholarly books, from the Yoga and Plato and St. John the Evangel and the early Greek philosophers like Herakleitos down to Fraser and his “Golden Bough” and even Freud and Frohenius. Even then I only remember hints—and I proceed by intuition."
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“Görünmeyen bağlar [harmoni] görünenlerden daha güçlüdür. Şeylerin yalın hallerine ulaşmak için onların karanlığına dalmak gerekir.”
— Herakleitos, Fragman 54.
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