Heraclitus Quotes - Page 8

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• To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

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  Beautiful, All Things

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• You can never step in the same river twice.

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  Rivers, Steps

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• The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

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  Men, Humanity, Immortal

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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 waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

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  Rivers, Water, Flow

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• 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 [logos].

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  Soul, Logos, Boundaries

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• From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

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  Philosophy, Oneness, Unity

  "Fragments (Fragment 10)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

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  Night, Men, Light

  "Fragments (Fragment 26)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• War is the father and king of all.

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  Kings, Father, War

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.13, Philaletheians UK

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• All things flow, nothing abides.

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  Time, Flow, All Things

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

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  Logos

  "Fragments (Fragment 50)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Character is fate. (Destiny).

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  Character, Fate, Destiny

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 190-92, In Mullach's Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum, 1922.

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• No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

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  Rivers, Substance, Steps

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• The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

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  Fire, Phases, Satiety

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• Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

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  Night, Impossible, Distinction

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

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  Life, Wall, Fighting

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.76, Penguin

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• Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

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  Night, Names, Monsters

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.36, Penguin

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• The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

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  Wall, Fighting, Law

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• Everything is in flux.

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  Flux

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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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  Sleep, World, Waking

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

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  Journey, Hiking, Path

  c.500 BC Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds) The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6.

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

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  Wall, Fighting, Law

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• All is flux, nothing is stationary.

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  Flux, Stationary

  c.500 BC Quoted in Aristotle De caelo, bk.3, pt.1.18.

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• The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

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  Together, Groups, Neighbor

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• The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

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  Opposites, Born, Strife

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• Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

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  Rivers, Progress, Steps

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