Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
HERACLITUSMuch learning does not teach understanding.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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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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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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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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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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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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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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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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