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Single Idea 427

[from 'fragments/reports' by Heraclitus, in 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers ]

Full Idea

It is not possible to step twice into the same river.

Gist of Idea

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Source

Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B091), quoted by Plutarch - 24: The E at Delphi 392b10-

Book Reference

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.31