Heraclitus Quotes
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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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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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
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Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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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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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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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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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
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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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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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Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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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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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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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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Greater dooms win greater destinies.