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Plato - Cratylus - Everything flows
Identifier
011782
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Because there is function dependency, function follows function
Because all activity is logged there are perceptins
Because there are perceptions there is energy use and energy release
A description of the experience
- Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει
- Everything flows, nothing stands still.
- Quoted by Plato in Cratylus, and by Diogenes Laërtius in Lives of the Philosophers Book IX, section 8
- Variant translations:
Everything flows and nothing stays.
Everything flows and nothing abides.
Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Everything flows; nothing remains.
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
All is flux, nothing stays still