Fragment 75

'from notes at variance (diapheromenon) comes the finest harmony' [Heraclitus, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus, translated by Charles H. Kahn, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1987, p284]

Heraclitus says, The counter-thrust brings together, and from tones at variance comes perfect attunement, and all things come to pass through conflict. [Heraclitus, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus, translated by Charles H. Kahn, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1987, p75]

That which is in opposition is in concert, and from things that differ comes the most beautiful harmony. [Heracleitus, in Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983, p8]

In reference to these very things they look for deeper and more natural principles. Euripides says that "the parched earth is in love with rain," and that "high heaven, with rain fulfilled, loves to fall to earth." And Heracleitus says that "the opposite is beneficial," and that "from things that differ comes the fairest attunement," and that "all things are born through strife." [Heracleitus, On The Universe, in Hippocrates, Vol. IV, translated by W. H. S. Jones, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1967, p46]

Opposition is good; the fairest harmony comes out of differents; everything originates in strife. [Lattimore: 46]

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. [Heraclitus in The Origins of Philosophy, collected by Drew Hyland, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1990, p8]

The hidden harmony is stronger (or, 'better') than the visible. [Heracleitus, in Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983, p54]

The invisible attunement is superior to the visible. [Heracleitus, On The Universe, in Hippocrates, Vol. IV, translated by W. H. S. Jones, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1967, p47]

And that (god) is unapparent, unseen, and unrecognized for men he says in these words: An unapparent connexion is stronger than an apparent; he praises and admires the unrecognized and unseen side of his power, rather than the recognized. Heraclitus, The Cosmic Fragments, translated by G. S. Kirk, Cambridge University Press, Cambirdge, Great Britain, 1970, p54]