What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
HERACLITUSEven a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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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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All are one.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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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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Change alone is unchanging.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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War is the mother of everything.
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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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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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