Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
HERACLITUSIf you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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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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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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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.
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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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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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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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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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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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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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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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The sun is the width of a human foot.
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Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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