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Cold warms. Heat cools. Wet dries. Dry gets wet.

Heraclitus, Fragment B126 (Diels-Kranz)

The source

"Cold warms. Heat cools. Wet dries. Dry gets wet." Heraclitus said it in Fragment B126 (Diels-Kranz). Translated from the original Greek by Spartan Surfers.

"ψυχρὰ θέρεται, θερμὰ ψύχεται, ὑγρὰ αὐαίνεται, καρφαλέα νοτίζεται."

Original Greek, Fragment B126 (Diels-Kranz). Greek: Diels-Kranz fragment text via el.wikisource.

Who said it

Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). Philosopher of Ephesus who taught that everything flows. Only fragments of his book survive.

Questions

Who said "Cold warms. Heat cools. Wet dries. Dry gets wet."?
Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). Source: Fragment B126 (Diels-Kranz).
What is the original Greek?
ψυχρὰ θέρεται, θερμὰ ψύχεται, ὑγρὰ αὐαίνεται, καρφαλέα νοτίζεται. Translated from the original Greek by Spartan Surfers.

Filed under Water.

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