The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
HERACLITUSMen who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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Nothing endures but change.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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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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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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