Heraclitus

HeraclitusHeraclitus (6-5 century BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. Little is known of Heraclitus’s life. He wrote a single work, only fragments of which have survived. [Українська] [Русский]

Heraclitus Quotes

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.

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Man’s character is his fate.

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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

—Heraclitus

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.

—Heraclitus

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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

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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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Dogs bark at what they don’t understand.

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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.

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The sun is the width of a human foot.

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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.

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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

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

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We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

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Silence, healing.

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The only thing that is constant is change.

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All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle.

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The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

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To be even minded is the greatest virtue.

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The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

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Big results require big ambitions.

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Nothing endures but change.

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The sun is new each day.

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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

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

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All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

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It is in changing that we find purpose.

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