 | Margaret Elizabeth Jane Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1924 - 158 pages
...agrees with itself : it is a harmony of opposite tension, like that of the bow and the lyre.' ' The poet was wrong in saying — Would that strife might perish from among gods and men ! He knew not that he was praying that naught might come to be ; for from strife and opposition,... | |
 | Emil Carl Wilm - Instinct - 1925 - 224 pages
...from being that which annuls and destroys, is the very author of existence and the agent of progress. "Homer was wrong in saying, Would that strife might perish from among gods and man! He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe ; for, if his prayer were... | |
 | John Elof Boodin - Cosmogony - 1925 - 498 pages
...This necessity for plurality and conflict was clearly seen by the great ancient seer, Heraclitus: " "Homer was wrong in saying: 'Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!' He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer were... | |
 | Cyril Bailey - Philosophy - 1928 - 730 pages
...processes in opposite directions, is in fact just the 'harmony which gives the world its permanence'. 'Homer was wrong in saying "would that Strife might perish from among gods and men": if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away.' 3 In this somewhat fantastic — or perhaps... | |
 | Boris Basil Bogoslovsky - Logic - 1928 - 288 pages
...with itself. It is an attunement of 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 did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe ; for if his prayer... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 2008 - 932 pages
...this, I think rightly. Heraclitus is often misunderstood through being assimilated to other lonians. wrong in saying: 'Would that strife might perish from among gods and men! ' He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer were... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - Literary Collections - 2002 - 268 pages
...the creative principle as DHL rightly identifies it, that the world exists. Heraclitus himself said: 'Homer was wrong in saying: "Would that strife might perish from among gods and men ! " He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - Law - 1985 - 490 pages
...Human interference with the cyclic processes of change was, for Heraclitus, pointless and misplaced: "Homer was wrong in saying: 'Would that strife might perish from among gods and men.' He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer were... | |
 | Peter Preston, Peter Hoare - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 246 pages
...that all things come into being and pass away through strife' (Fragment 62) and who considered that: Homer was wrong in saying: 'Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!' He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for if his prayer were... | |
 | Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn - Antichrist - 1998 - 220 pages
...everywhere in the universe, pleasure and pain in man! Heracleitus of Ephesus shrewdly commented that Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might perish from among gods and men," that he did not see he was really praying for the destruction of the universe and that if his... | |
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Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away. 
