khorei

Updated: June 16, 2025

Legei pou Herakleitos hoti panta khorei kai ouden menei. To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. Let us begin with that which is without our physical life. Fix upon it in one of its more exquisite intervals, the moment, for instance, of delicious recoil from the flood of water in summer heat.

Walter Pater - The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry