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Quotation by Heraclitus
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quoted in Hippocrates, On The UniverseDiels-Kranz, fr. 91 (from Plutarch)Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 22B107Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 22B29Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 22B35Related Subjects
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Herakleitos and Diogenes, pt. 1, fragment 24, trans. by Guy Davenport (1976).
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