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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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  Science, Reality, Fire

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• The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

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  Wisdom, Wall, Freedom

  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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• All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

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  Inspirational, Ethics, Morality

  "A History of Western Philosophy". Book by Bertrand Russell, Chapter IV: Heraclitus, 1945.

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• A dry soul is wisest and best.

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  Philosophy, Soul, Dry

  Heraclitus (1981). “The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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• Things keep their secrets.

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  Secret

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.8, Penguin

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• You cannot step twice into the same river.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Rivers

  "Fragments".

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• The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

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  Men, Atheism, Process

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• This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.

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  Life, Men, Fire

  "Fragments (Fragment 30)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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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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  Men, Rivers, He Man

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• For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

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  Young, Young And Old, Awake

  "Hippocrates".

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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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  Walking Dead, May, Walking

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.18, Penguin

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• Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

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  Path, Combs, Straight Path

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.46, Penguin

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• It is wise to agree that all things are one.

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  Wise, Agree, All Things

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

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  Dog, Ignorance, Bark

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.24, Philaletheians UK

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• The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

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  Powerful, Connections, Unexpected

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• I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

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  Education, Book, Reading

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• The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

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  Fire, Cosmos, Made

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• Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

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  Couple, Agree, All Things

  "Fragments (Fragment 10)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

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  Ignorance

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.4, Philaletheians UK

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• Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

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  Men, Love Wisdom

  "Stromata (Fragment 35)". Book by Clement of Alexandria, 2nd century AD.

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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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  Blow, Men, Thinking

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• Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

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  Dog, Bark, Persons

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• Everything changes and nothing stands still.

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  Things Change, Stills

  "Cratylus". Dialogue by Plato, 1826.

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• All things are in a state of flux.

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  Change, Organization, States

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• Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Goes On

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