Top 100 Heraclitus Quotes
#1. Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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#2. All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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#3. May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
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#4. Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
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#5. To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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#6. Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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#7. Much learning does not teach understanding.
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#8. The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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#9. Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
Nothing endures but change.
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#10. The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
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#11. It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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#12. What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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#13. All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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#14. If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
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#15. It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
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#16. Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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#17. People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
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#18. A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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#19. Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.
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#20. The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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#21. The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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#22. 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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#23. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
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#25. If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
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#26. We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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#27. It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
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#28. Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.
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#29. To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
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#30. Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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#31. What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
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#32. Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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#33. The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.
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#34. Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
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#36. Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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#37. Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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#38. We must realize that war is universal and strife is justice, and that all things come into the world and pass away through strife.
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#39. He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored
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#40. Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
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#41. To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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#42. Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.
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#43. Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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#44. If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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#45. From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
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#47. Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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#48. Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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#49. You can never step in the same river twice.
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#50. Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
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#51. Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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#53. Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
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#54. A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
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#55. There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
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#56. The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
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#58. Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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#59. There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
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#60. The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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#62. How can you hide from what never goes away?
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#63. To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.
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#65. Everything flows and nothing stays.
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#66. You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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#67. It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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#68. It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
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#69. What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
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#70. The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
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#71. It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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#72. No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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#74. Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
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#75. Dog bark at what they don't understand.
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#76. 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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#77. Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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#78. What allows us to be human is something daemonic.
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#79. Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?
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#80. Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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#82. All things are in a state of flux.
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#83. The sun is the width of a human foot.
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#85. Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
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#86. Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
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#87. No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
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#88. There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
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#89. Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
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#90. It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.
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#91. Learning many things does not teach understanding
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#92. The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
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#93. The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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#94. What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.
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#95. The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
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#96. When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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#97. Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
after sickness, food
in hunger, goodness
in the wake of evil, and at the end
of daylong labor sleep.
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#99. All entities move and nothing remains still
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