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Single Idea 422
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / b. Rule of law
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Full Idea
The people should fight for the law as if for their city-wall.
Gist of Idea
The people should fight for the law as if for their city-wall
Source
Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B044), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.2
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.27
A Reaction
This may be the first recorded assertion of the rule of law, and hence of the separation of powers. We still have plenty of people who reject this principle.
The
36 ideas
from Heraclitus
5863
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Reason is eternal, but men are foolish
[Heraclitus]
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1312
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If everything is and isn't then everything is true, and a midway between true and false makes everything false
[Aristotle on Heraclitus]
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11091
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You can bathe in the same river twice, but not in the same river stage
[Quine on Heraclitus]
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13782
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Everything gives way, and nothing stands fast
[Heraclitus]
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5096
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Heraclitus says that at some time everything becomes fire
[Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
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17539
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The sayings of Heraclitus are still correct, if we replace 'fire' with 'energy'
[Heraclitus, by Heisenberg]
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3054
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Heraclitus said fire could be transformed to create the other lower elements
[Heraclitus, by Diog. Laertius]
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614
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Heraclitus said sometimes everything becomes fire
[Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
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12269
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All things are in a state of motion
[Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
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12294
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Good and evil are the same thing
[Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
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1499
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Heraclitus says intelligence draws on divine reason
[Heraclitus, by Sext.Empiricus]
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1500
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When we sleep, reason closes down as the senses do
[Heraclitus, by Sext.Empiricus]
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15660
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Logos is the source of everything, and my theories separate and explain each nature
[Heraclitus]
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414
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Logos is common to all, but most people live as if they have a private understanding
[Heraclitus]
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415
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If happiness is bodily pleasure, then oxen are happy when they have vetch to eat
[Heraclitus]
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1501
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In their ignorance people pray to statues, which is like talking to a house
[Heraclitus]
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15659
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Purifying yourself with blood is as crazy as using mud to wash off mud
[Heraclitus]
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416
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Beautiful harmony comes from things that are in opposition to one another
[Heraclitus]
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417
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Donkeys prefer chaff to gold
[Heraclitus]
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419
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If one does not hope, one will not find the unhoped-for, since nothing leads to it
[Heraclitus]
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420
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The cosmos is eternal not created, and is an ever-living and changing fire
[Heraclitus]
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2064
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If flux is continuous, then lack of change can't be a property, so everything changes in every possible way
[Plato on Heraclitus]
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421
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Men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed
[Heraclitus]
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422
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The people should fight for the law as if for their city-wall
[Heraclitus]
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424
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Reason tells us that all things are one
[Heraclitus]
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425
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A thing can have opposing tensions but be in harmony, like a lyre
[Heraclitus]
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15658
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The hidden harmony is stronger than the visible
[Heraclitus]
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426
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Sea water is life-giving for fish, but not for people
[Heraclitus]
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5155
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It is hard to fight against emotion, but harder still to fight against pleasure
[Heraclitus]
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427
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It is not possible to step twice into the same river
[Heraclitus]
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429
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To God (though not to humans) all things are beautiful and good and just
[Heraclitus]
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430
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Senses are no use if the soul is corrupt
[Heraclitus]
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431
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Health, feeding and rest are only made good by disease, hunger and weariness
[Heraclitus]
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1491
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Everyone has the potential for self-knowledge and sound thinking
[Heraclitus]
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433
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For man character is destiny
[Heraclitus]
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11853
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A mixed drink separates if it is not stirred
[Heraclitus]
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