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Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe.
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The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
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Not understanding after hearing they are like the deaf; the saying is evidence for them 'absent when present'.
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The fairest cosmos is as a rubbish heap piled up haphazardly.
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War is father of all and king of all: some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free.
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.
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One must know that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things happen by strife and necessity.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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If you do not expect it, you will not find out the unexpected.
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People asleep are workers, taking part in the work of the cosmos.
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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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For when is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.
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Sea water is most clean/pure and most polluted; for fish it is drinkable, for humans undrinkable and destructive.
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Disease makes health pleasant and good, as does hunger satiety and weariness rest.
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Everything flows and nothing stays…You can't step twice into the same river.
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There is one wisdom, to understand how reason steers everything through everything.
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Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within
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It is hard to fight against impulse; whatever it wants it buys at the expense of soul.
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The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.
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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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Death is what we see when awake, and what we see asleep is sleep.
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This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
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Born:
535 BC
Died:
475 BC
(aged 60)
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Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage.
Known for:
The cosmic fragments
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus
Fragments
The Fragments of Heraclitus
Heraclitus: Homeric Problems
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