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.
HERACLITUSApplicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
More Heraclitus Quotes
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The sun is the width of a human foot.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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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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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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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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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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All are one.
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War is the mother of everything.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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