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.
HERACLITUSHide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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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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The sun is the width of a human foot.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
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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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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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Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day.
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Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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