Full Idea
Heraclitus said that good and evil are the same thing.
Gist of Idea
Good and evil are the same thing
Source
report of Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], 58/102) by Aristotle - Topics 159b32
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics and Topica', ed/tr. Tredennick,H/Forster,ES [Harvard 1960], p.707
A Reaction
Heaven knows what he meant by this, though it sounds suspiciously like moral nihilism. Maybe Heraclitus was not a very nice man. Or is the thought a more sophisticated one, in line with Nietzsche's remarks about cultural morality?