The logos holds always but humans always prove unable to understand it, both before hearing it and when, they have first heard it. For though all things happen, in accordance with this logos, humans are like people with no experience when they experience whan I say and do . . .

Although the logos is common, most people live as if they had their own private understanding.

Misunderstanding what they have heard, they are like the deaf. This saying describes them: though present, they are absent.

Pigs prefer mud to pure water.

Listening not to me but to the logos, it is wise to agree that all things are one.

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 the lyre.

An unapparent connection (harmonid) is stronger than an...