Heraclitus Quotes
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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.
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All things are in a state of flux.
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Life is a child moving counters in a game.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
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The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.
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Dogs bark at what they don't understand.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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Invisible harmony is better than visible.
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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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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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Much learning does not teach sense.
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There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
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The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.
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What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
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It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.