Heraclitus ✓

philosopher

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[Wikidata] Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)... | [Wikipedia] Heraclitus was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both ancient and modern, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, F

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• The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall. Behalf
• It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one. All
• Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent." Absent
• The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings. Fairest
• This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will… All
• People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls. Cities
• There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure… Bad
• The only thing that is constant is change. Change
• The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice ... Character
• Learning many things does not teach understanding Doe
• No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed. Changed
• Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one Countless
• If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure… Boundaries
• 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. Act
• There is nothing peranent except change. Change
• 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… Amounts
• War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. All
• If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass. Compass
• The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire. Cosmos
• To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right. All
• You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go. Discover
• All things come into being by conflict of opposites. All
• History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. Building
• You can never step in the same river twice. Inspirational
• The only constant in life is change Change

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