They do not understand how, though at variance with itself, it agrees with itself. It is a backwards-turning attunement like that of the bow and lyre.
They do not understand how that which differs with itself in is agreement: harmony consists of opposing tension, like that of the bow and the lyre.
THE BOW AND LYRE
"Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre."
(Heraclitus, Fragment 51)
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