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" Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre. "
History of Greek Philosophy, Thales to Democritus - Page 93
by B.A.G. Fuller - 1923
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Early Greek Philosophy

John Burnet - Philosophy, Ancient - 1908 - 458 pages
...of all ; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free. RP 34(45) Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions,2 like that of the bow and the lyre. RP 34. (46) It is the opposite which is good for us.8...
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History of Greek Philosophy: Thales to Democritus

Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller - Philosophy - 1923 - 312 pages
...the identity of opposites.19 But it also follows — and this more immediately concerns us — that each one of the three elements is pulled at one and...opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre." 20 Obviously permanence and stability of this sort are not mere illusions due to the deception of our...
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The Legacy of the Ancient World

William George De Burgh - Civilization - 1924 - 494 pages
...way up and the way down is one and the same " ; " men do not know how what is at variance with itself agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre." Heraclitus realised that nature's law is one of ceaseless change, that the world as it appears to sense...
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The Technique of Controversy: Principles of Dynamic Logic

Boris Basil Bogoslovsky - Logic - 1928 - 288 pages
...there were no injustice " * (60), From the ontological, objective point of view, " Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is...opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre " (45). " Homer was wrong in saying, ' Would that strife might perish from among gods and men ! ' He...
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History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 2008 - 932 pages
...the perpetual flux; this was the doctrine of the mingling of opposites. "Men do not know," he says, "how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is...opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre." His belief in strife is connected with this theory, for in strife opposites combine to produce a motion...
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Power and Policy in Quest of the Law: Essays in Honor of Eugene Victor Rostow

Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 pages
...other. There is persistence in the flux through balance of nourishment and consumption. Heraclitus says: "It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre." 154 The persistence of features is, however, only for a time. Things come into being and pass away...
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Phenomenology and Dialectical Materialism

Đức Thảo Trần - Philosophy - 1986 - 286 pages
...remained of feudal particularisms in the name of the exigencies of the common struggle: "Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is...opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre. It is the opposite which is good for us. The hidden attunement is better than the open."3* The philosophy...
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Signets: Reading H.D.

Susan Stanford Friedman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis - Women and literature - 1990 - 516 pages
...gods and men.' They understand not how that which is at variance with itself agrees with itself. There is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the harp." The crucifixion was not only a punishment (as those who judged Him saw it), not only a sacrifice,...
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Signets: Reading H.D.

Susan Stanford Friedman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis - Women and literature - 1990 - 516 pages
...gods and men.' They understand not how that which is at variance with itself agrees with itself. There is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the harp." The crucifixion was not only a punishment (as those who judged Him saw it), not only a sacrifice,...
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Becoming Bamboo: Western and Eastern Explorations of the Meaning of Life

Robert Edgar Carter - Philosophy - 1992 - 244 pages
...fire, when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savour of each. (45) Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is...opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre." The rigidity and the precision of either-or logic make it impossible to give expression to the flux...
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