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Heraclitus›Fragments›Full Text›Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of 13

Fragments 21–30

~1 min read · 158 words

XXI. The transmutations of fire are, first, the sea; and of the sea, half is earth, and half the lightning flash.

XXII. All things are exchanged for fire and fire for all things, just as wares for gold and gold for wares.

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Fragments 11–20

Fragments 31–40

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Fragments

Heraclitus

500 BC

AuthorHeraclitus

Published500 BC

BranchesMetaphysics, Ontology

Chapters13

Heraclitus wrote a single work, now lost, of which about 130 fragments survive quoted by later authors. Dense and deliberately paradoxical, the Fragments lay out a vision of reality as ceaseless change governed by an underlying rational principle.

Chapters

1Fragments 1–10

2

Fragments 11–20

3Fragments 21–30

4Fragments 31–40

5Fragments 41–50

6Fragments 51–60

7Fragments 61–70

8Fragments 71–80

9Fragments 81–90

10Fragments 91–100

11Fragments 101–110

12Fragments 111–120

13Fragments 121–130