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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

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Teacher, Fear, Atheism

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

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Eye, People, Soul

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The way up and the way down are one and the same.

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Philosophy, Way, Greek Philosophy

"Fragments (Fragment 60)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

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Men, Spirituality, Divine

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I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

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Believe, Ocean, Land

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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

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Fighting, Emotion, Pleasure

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

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Inspirational, Blow

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Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

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Philosophy, Philosophical, Reality

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

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Life, Peace, Chaos

"Heraclitus". Book by Philip Wheelwright, 1959.

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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

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Men, Justice, Knows

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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

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Cutting, Doctors, Sick

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Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

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Political, Racist, Disease

"The fragments of Heraclitus" by Heraclitus, no. 47,

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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 immediately]

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Gratitude, Cures, Enjoy

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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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Lying, Justice, Deceit

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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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Understanding, Listening, Deaf

Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.6, Philaletheians UK

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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
Nothing endures but change.

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Understanding, Delay, Today

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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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Dream, Men, World

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How can you hide from what never goes away?

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It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

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Evil, Disease, Hunger

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Change alone is unchanging.

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Change, Unity, Unchanging

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The fairest harmony springs from discord.

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Spring, Harmony, Discord

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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

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Beautiful, Wisdom, Respect

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Invisible harmony is better than visible.

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Materialism, Invisible, Harmony

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Greater dooms win greater destinies.

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Adversity, Winning, Destiny

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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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Book, Wine, Ignorance

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Born: 535 BC
Died: 475 BC
Occupation: Philosopher
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