Heraclitus Quotes
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.
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What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
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No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.
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There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
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All is flux; nothing stays still.
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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.
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Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
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Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.