The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
HERACLITUSTo do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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It is in changing that we find purpose.
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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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Nothing endures but change.
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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.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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War is the mother of everything.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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