Heraclitus Quotes
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Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
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To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."
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Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
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The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.
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You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.
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Learning many things does not teach understanding.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.
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The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign.
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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
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Change alone is unchanging.
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The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
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Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.
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War is the mother of everything.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.