“ Mortals are immortals, and immortals are mortals, the one living the other’s death and dying the other’s life. ”
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945). copy citation
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
|---|---|
| Source | A History of Western Philosophy |
| Topic | death life |
| Date | 1945 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western%20Philosoph... |
Context
“Heraclitus, though an Ionian, was not in the scientific tradition of the Milesians.* He was a mystic, but of a peculiar kind. He regarded fire as the fundamental substance; everything, like flame in a fire, is born by the death of something else. Mortals are immortals, and immortals are mortals, the one living the other’s death and dying the other’s life. “ All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things ” ; but the many have less reality than the one, which is God.
From what survives of his writings he does not appear as an amiable character.” source
From what survives of his writings he does not appear as an amiable character.” source
