Heraclitus

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You cannot step twice into the same river.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Philosophy
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Men
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War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Kings
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There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Science
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The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Character
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There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
- Heraclitus
Collection: World
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Dog
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You can never step in the same river twice.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Rivers
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Life
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All things flow, nothing abides.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Time
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Change is the only constant.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Life
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The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Order
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All entities move and nothing remains still.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Moving
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Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one
- Heraclitus
Collection: Night
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We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Night
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One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
- Heraclitus
Collection: War
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The only constant is change.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Change
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There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Unchanging
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Wall
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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.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Men
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The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Wise
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The seeing have the world in common.
- Heraclitus
Collection: World
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He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Logos
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The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Rivers
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Nature
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The path up and down is one and the same.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Journey
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It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Wise
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Nature loves to hide.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Nature
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War is the father of all things.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Peace
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Character is fate. (Destiny).
- Heraclitus
Collection: Character
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Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Rivers
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The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Wall
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War is the father and king of all.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Kings
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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
- Heraclitus
Collection: Sleep
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Night
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Life
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Opposites
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Flux
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Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Night
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All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river
- Heraclitus
Collection: Rivers
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Everything is in flux.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Flux
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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Desire
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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Children
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The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Together
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All is flux; nothing stays still.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Life
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Fire
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From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Philosophy
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There is nothing peranent except change.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Change
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No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Rivers