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• Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

  Heraclitus

  Children, Kingdoms, Eternity

  "Refutation of all heresies, Book IX (Fragment 52)". Book by Hippolytus of Rome (3rd century AD), as later translated in Carl Avren Levenson and Jonathan Westphal "Reality" (p. 10), 1994.

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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.

  Heraclitus

  Caught, Left Behind, Behinds

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• It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

  Heraclitus

  Work, Toiling, Weariness

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• The results are in great need greater ambition.

  Heraclitus

  Ambition, Needs, Results

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• Character is our destiny.

  Heraclitus

  Character, Destiny, Our Destiny

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• Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Wine, Ignorance

  "Fragments (Fragment 109)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Nature is wont to hide herself.

  Heraclitus

  Nature

  "Fragments (Fragment 123)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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

  Heraclitus

  Men, All Things, Fairs

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• There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

  Heraclitus

  Fire, Gold, All Things

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

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Men

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• Life is a child moving counters in a game.

  Heraclitus

  Children, Moving, Games

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• Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Judgment, All Things

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

  Heraclitus

  Life, Way, Unforeseen

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.20, Penguin

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

  Heraclitus

  Rivers, Flux, All Things

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• Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Flux, Endure

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

  Heraclitus

  Believe, Belief, Divine

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• 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.

  Heraclitus

  Children, Men, Sea

  "Contemporary Literature in Translation". Issues 23-32 (p. 21), 1976.

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• The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

  Heraclitus

  Years, Voice, Mouths

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• The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

  Heraclitus

  Giving, Oracles, Lord

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

  Heraclitus

  Order, World, Statistics

  Collected in Charles H Kahn The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (1979).

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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 the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

  Heraclitus

  Home, Son, Men

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• The only thing constant is change

  Heraclitus

  Good Life, Constant

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• Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

  Heraclitus

  Death, Fit, Burial

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

  Heraclitus

  Common, Ifs

  "Fragments (Fragment 2)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• War is the father of all things.

  Heraclitus

  Peace, Father, War

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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