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It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to the λόγος, and to confess that all things are one.


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Kirk points out that this fragment would have no meaning if the λόγος were not used in a technical sense to mean the 'divine ordering principle: if Heraclitus' λόγος were just his account, then listening to the λόγος would just be listening to him. (Read more in the article on λόγος).

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