“he compares them to the stream of a river…” Plato

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“he compares them to the stream of a river, and says that you cannot go into the same water twice”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Cratylus, Stephanus 402a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Socrates' report of Heraclitus, an early and much-cited version of the river fragment.

Citation: "he compares them to the stream of a river, and says that you cannot go into the same water twice" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 402a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q8)

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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato