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| Heraclitus
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.A dry soul is wisest and best. A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. A man's character is his fate.Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. All is in flux, nothing stays still. Big results require big ambitions. Bigotry is the sacred disease. Change alone is unchanging. Character is destiny. Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services. Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe. Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language. God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and want. Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Man is not made for defeat. Man is on earth as in an egg. Man's character is his fate.Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a greatmany particulars.Much learning does not teach understanding. Nature is wont to hide herself. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. Nothing endures but change. One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world of their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded. Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed. The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three. The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself. The people should fight for the law as for their city wall. The phases of fire are craving and satiety. The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself. The road up and the road down is one and the same. The sun is new each day. The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man; it forever was, is, and forever will be, an ever living Fire. The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living. The world, an entity out of everything, was created by neither Gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and regularly becoming extinguished. There is nothing permanent except change. Those awake share a common world. To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by what you do rather than to control it. To God all things are beautiful and good and just, but men have supposed some things to be unjust, others just. We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire. You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. |
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