Heraclitus Quotes
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The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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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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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.
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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
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The only constant is change.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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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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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
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The only thing constant is change.
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The results are in great need greater ambition.
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
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It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.