Heraclitus Quotes
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Dogs bark at what they don't understand.
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
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You cannot step twice into the same river.
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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Invisible harmony is better than visible.
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The only constant in life is change.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
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Much learning does not teach sense.
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A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.
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Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.