Heraclitus

“To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.”

— Heraclitus

“The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls. (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)”

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The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

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“Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best”

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“Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.”

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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

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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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Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other…

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

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If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and…

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“We must realize that war is universal and strife is justice, and that all things come into the world and pass away…

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“A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to…

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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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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

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“One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.”

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He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

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Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

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“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει (All is flux, and nothing abides)”

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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

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

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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have the uncultured souls.

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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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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

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The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.

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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

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“The river where you set your foot just now is gone those waters― hiving way to this, now this.”

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There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

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“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.”

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The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

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“Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.”

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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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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

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He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.

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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

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