The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
HERACLITUSRealize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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War is the mother of everything.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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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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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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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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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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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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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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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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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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All are one.
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