Heraclitus Quotes - Page 3

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• Much learning does not teach sense.

  Heraclitus

  Doe, Teach

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• If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Justice, Knows

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• I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

  Heraclitus

  Believe, Ocean, Land

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• Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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  Lying, Justice, Deceit

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• Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
  Nothing endures but change.

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  Understanding, Delay, Today

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• It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

  Heraclitus

  Fighting, Emotion, Pleasure

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• What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

  Heraclitus

  Teacher, Fear, Atheism

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• Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

  Heraclitus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Reality

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• How can you hide from what never goes away?

  Heraclitus

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• Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

  Heraclitus

  Fire, Open Minded, Openness

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.22, Philaletheians UK

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• Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.

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  Change, Giving, Way

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• When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

  Heraclitus

  Dream, Men, World

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• The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

  Heraclitus

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Respect

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• Applicants for wisdom
  do what I have done:
  inquire within

  Heraclitus

  Done

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.7, Penguin

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• Greater dooms win greater destinies.

  Heraclitus

  Adversity, Winning, Destiny

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• The fairest harmony springs from discord.

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  Spring, Harmony, Discord

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• You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

  Heraclitus

  Soul, Limits

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• The sun is new each day.

  Heraclitus

  Morning, New Day, Each Day

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• Change alone is unchanging.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Unity, Unchanging

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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.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Glory, Preference

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• All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

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  Opposites, Together, Sound

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• It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

  Heraclitus

  Evil, Disease, Hunger

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• Time is a game played beautifully by children.

  Heraclitus

  Time, Children, Philosophy

  "Fragments". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  Heraclitus

  Failure, Adversity, Men

  "Fragments (Fragment 110)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

  Heraclitus

  Decay, Mixtures, Strife

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