Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
HERACLITUSIt is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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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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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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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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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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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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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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The road up and the road down is one and the same.
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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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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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A man’s character is his fate.
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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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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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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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