The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

War is the father of all things.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.