"A dry gleam of light is the wisest and best soul."

— Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE)


Work Title
Date
c. 501 B.C.
Metaphor
"A dry gleam of light is the wisest and best soul."
Metaphor in Context
αυγὴ ξηρὴ ψυχὴ σοφωτάτη καὶ ἀρίστη

[A dry gleam of light is the wisest and best soul.]

(DK B118)
Provenance
Browsing Randy Hoyt's website, from which the unicode Greek is drawn.
Citation
Heraclitus, Fragments Trans T. M. Robinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987).

The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
Date of Entry
05/17/2011

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.