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Inspirational Quotes by Heraclitus

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A dog barking at something it doesn't know shows that we often react without understanding. Heraclitus reminds us that learning many facts isn’t the same as true insight. He also says the cosmos is an eternal fire and that what we do each day shapes who we become.

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Nature loves to hide.

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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

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Nothing is constant except change

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The only constant is change.

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The only thing constant is change

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One cannot step twice in the same river

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War is the father and king of all,

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All things are in a state of flux.

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Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

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You can never step in the same river twice.

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The content of your # character is your # choice ...

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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

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Day by day, what you do is who you become.

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You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

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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.

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It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

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Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

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From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

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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…

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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

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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…

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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…

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War is the father of all things.

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All things flow, nothing abides.

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War is the mother of everything.

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The path up and down is one and the same.

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Character is our destiny.

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There is nothing peranent except change.

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The only constant in life is change

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What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away

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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

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Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

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It is in changing that things find purpose.

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All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

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Learning many things does not teach understanding

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

“One man is worth thousand if he is extraordinary”

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

Everything is in flux.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

We do not step in the same river twice, for the waters have moved on and we too have changed.

War is the father of all things.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

The seeing have the world in common.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things