Heraclitus Quotes
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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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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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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Big results require big ambitions.
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Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
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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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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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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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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
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For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.
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You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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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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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Learning many things does not teach understanding.
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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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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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War is the mother of everything.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.