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.
HERACLITUSMan is on earth as in an egg.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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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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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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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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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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The sun is new each day.
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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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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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