Heraclitus Quotes
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away.
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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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The fairest harmony springs from discord.
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If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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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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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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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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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 dry soul is wisest and best.
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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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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All is flux; nothing stays still.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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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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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.