Full Idea
In their ignorance of the true nature of gods and heroes people pray to these statues, which is like someone holding a conversation with a house.
Gist of Idea
In their ignorance people pray to statues, which is like talking to a house
Source
Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B005), quoted by Anon (Pyth) - Theosophia Tubigensis 68
Book Reference
'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.46