Much learning does not teach understanding.
HERACLITUSThere 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.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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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 sun is the width of a human foot.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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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 out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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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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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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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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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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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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Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
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