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.
HERACLITUSMuch learning does not teach understanding.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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The sun is new each day.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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All is flux, nothing stays still.
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Nature loves to hide.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.
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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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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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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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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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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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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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Dog bark at what they don’t understand.
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