Quotes by Heraclitus

About Heraclitus:

Heraclitus of Ephesus is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling and allegedly paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure" and the "Weeping Philosopher".
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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

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It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

Heraclitus

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

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I could think of any moment and see him weaved throughout it. It was as though his soul was interwoven with mine

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Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.

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Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.

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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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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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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.

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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

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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.

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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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Big results require big ambitions.

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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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You cannot step into the same river twice.

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Author Bio

  • NameHeraclitus
  • Descriptionpre-Socratic Greek philosopher
  • Born535 BCE
  • Died475 BCE
  • CountryAncient Greece
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer