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Heraclitus›Fragments›Full Text›Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of 13

Fragments 41–50

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XLI. Into the same river you could not step twice, for other waters are flowing.

XLII. To those entering the same river, other and still other waters flow.

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Fragments 31–40

Fragments 51–60

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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