What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
HERACLITUSAll is flux, nothing stays still.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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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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The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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Dog bark at what they don’t understand.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
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Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
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