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.

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

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

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.