Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
HERACLITUSThe soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Character is destiny.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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Silence, healing.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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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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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
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The sun is the width of a human foot.
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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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