History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
HERACLITUSMuch learning does not teach understanding.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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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.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
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