Heraclitus Quotes

• A man’s character is his fate.

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• People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city’s walls.

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

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• If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult.

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• Education is another sun to the educated.

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• You would not find out the boundaries of the soul, even by travelling along every path: so deep a measure does it have.

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• The world is an ever-living fire.

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• Upon those that step into the same rivers different and different waters flow. They scatter and gather, come together and flow away, approach and depart.

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• The path up and down is one and the same.

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• All is flux, nothing is stationary.

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

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

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• Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.

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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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• Time is a game played beautifully by children.

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• People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city’s walls.

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

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

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• To be even minded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

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• Nothing is permanent but change.

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Birth:	535 BC
Death:	475 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Heraclitus of Ephesus was born in Ephesus, Ionia, Turkey. He was a Greek philosopher. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. He was famous for his insistence on ever-present change as being the fundamental essence of the universe, as stated in the famous saying, "No man ever steps in the same river twice".

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