Q0018

Heraclitus

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

I searched for myself.
Thinker Heraclitus
School Pre-Socratic
Source Fragment DK B101
Theme Self-examination
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Fragment DK B101, within the tradition of Pre-Socratic. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of self-examination, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Heraclitus's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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More from Heraclitus

  1. Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and different waters flow.
  2. A person's character is their destiny.
  3. What is opposed brings together; from what differs comes the finest harmony.

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Same theme

More on self-examination

  1. The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
  2. Thinking is the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention.
  3. The Master said: When three people walk together, one of them is sure to be my teacher. I select what is good in them and follow it; what is not good, I correct in myself.
  4. Zengzi said: Each day I examine myself on three counts: In acting on behalf of others, have I been loyal? In dealings with friends, have I been trustworthy? Have I practiced what was passed on to me?
  5. The Master said: When you see the worthy, think of equaling them; when you see the unworthy, examine yourself within.

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