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.
HERACLITUSThe sun is the width of a human foot.
More Heraclitus Quotes
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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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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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
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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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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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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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