If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
HERACLITUSMuch learning does not teach understanding.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Silence, healing.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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Dog bark at what they don’t understand.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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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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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within
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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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War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Big results require big ambitions.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.
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Change alone is unchanging.
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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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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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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