for him self-denial, renunciation, death were the sole means of escape from this changing flood of forms whereon, on the contrary, our Heraclitus had willingly been borne along. Beyond the world of the senses he hoped to rejoin the sphere of the purely divine, that unmoving firmament of which Plato, too, had dreamed.
austeritatea, ukapena, heriotza, omen ziren harentzat gauzen isuri aldakor honi ihes egiteko modu bakarra, gure Heraklitoren pentsakeraren alderantziz, hain zuzen, honek utzi egin baitzion bere buruari isuri horretxen ur-lasterrean joaten; modu bakarra, era berean, zentzumenen mundu honetatik harantza, jainkozkotasun hutsaren esfera hori, gure Platonek ere amestu zuèn ortze eta funts finko eta huts hori, erdiesteko.