Heraclitus, Fragment 22 (D 56)
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"Men are deceived in the recognition of what is obvious, like Homer who was wisest of all the Greeks. For...
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Michel de Montaigne on Democritus and Heraclitus
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“Democritus and Heraclitus were two philosophers, of whom the first, finding the condition of man vain and ridiculous, never went...
Heraclitus, Fragment 20 (D 106)
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[Hesiod counted some days as good, others as bad, because he did not recognize that the nature of every day...
Heraclitus, Fragment 19 (D 57)
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"The teacher of the most people is Hesiod; they are certain (epistasthai) that it is he who knows (eidenai) the...
Heraclitus, Fragment 18 (D 40)
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"Much learning does not teach understanding. For it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, and also Xenophanes and Hecataes."
Great learning...