Heraclitus quotes - page 3

All human laws are nourished by one divine law. (Heraclitus)
The many are mean; only the few are noble. View quote
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Greater fates gain greater rewards. View quote
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Although the Law of Reason is common, the majority of people live as though they had an understanding of their own. View quote
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Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe. View quote
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The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own. View quote
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For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all-immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. View quote
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. View quote
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. View quote
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Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (1942–1943) View quote
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Of Every One-Hundred Men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters... We are lucky to have them... They make the battle. Ah but the One, One of them is a Warrior... and He will bring the others back. (Heraclitus)
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. View quote
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Greater dooms win greater destinies. View quote
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Time is a game played beautifully by children. View quote
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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice. View quote
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Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. View quote
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Where there is no strife there is decay The mixture which is not shaken decomposes. View quote
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. View quote
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child. View quote
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This world ... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out. View quote
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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. (Heraclitus)
A dry soul is wisest and best. View quote
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety. View quote
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From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars. View quote
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Many statements paraphrase or extend upon his famous assertions that "everything changes" in ways which arguably diverge from valid translation, and yet have become widely attributed to Heraclitus: Change is the only constant. There is nothing permanent except change. View quote
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