Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
HERACLITUSHide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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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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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Character is destiny.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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The 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.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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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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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.
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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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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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