Heraclitus

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Change alone is unchanging.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Alone
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Brainy
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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Wedding
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The sun is new each day.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Morning
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
- Heraclitus
Collection: God
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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Patience
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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.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Experience
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
- Heraclitus
Collection: War
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Learning
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Best
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There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Change
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Nature is wont to hide herself.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Nature
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Happiness
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Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Change
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The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Inspirational
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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 choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Inspirational
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Wise
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Dogs bark at what they don't understand.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Dog
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Big results require big ambitions.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Business
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Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
- Heraclitus
Collection: World
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Unrealistic Expectations
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Unbelievable
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Motivational Sales
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Nothing is, everything is becoming.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Becoming
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Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Kings
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Desire
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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting
- Heraclitus
Collection: Sweet
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All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Rivers
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The way up and the way down are one and the same.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Philosophy
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Change
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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Opposites
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Funny
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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
- Heraclitus
Collection: Understanding
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Inspirational
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Integrity
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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.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Hope
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Encounters
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Philosophy
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Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Rivers
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire
- Heraclitus
Collection: Fire
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Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Walking Dead
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Wisdom
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Character is our destiny.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Character
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Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Dog
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
- Heraclitus
Collection: War
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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.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Ignorance
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What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Caught
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Men
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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Thinking
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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Wisdom