More than 60 Phrases of Heraclitus , Pre-Socratic philosopher of Ephesus, city of the western coast of Asia Minor. Was born approx. In 535 a.c. And died approx. In 484 a.c.
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1-The sun is new every day.
2-There is nothing permanent except change.
3-You can not step twice the same river, because it is not the same river and he is not the same man.
4-The character is the destiny.
5-Great results require great ambitions.
6-Nothing resists except change.
7-Much learning does not teach understanding.
8-Time is a game played very well by children.
9-Eyes and ears are bad witnesses for people if they have uncultivated souls.
10-How can you hide from what never disappears?
11-Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
12-The abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
13-Thought is a sacred disease and sight is misleading.
14-The people shall fight by their law, as by their wall.
15-Good character does not form in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. It takes a patient effort to develop good character.
16-Everyone has the possibility of being wise, but his contemporaries live asleep.
17-God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and hunger.
18-Awake men have only one world, but sleeping men have their own world.
19-Dogs bark at what they do not understand.
20-All human laws feed on the divine law.
21-It is not right to hide your ignorance, but to discover and remedy it.
22-Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
23-Those who seek gold dig up much ground and find little.
24-It is necessary to follow what is common, but although the logos is common, most of the men live as if they had a private wisdom.
25-Those who sleep are workers and artisans of what happens in the kosmos.
26-Once they are born, they want to live and reach their destination, but rather to rest, so they leave behind them to reach their destination.
27-It is necessary to know that war is common and justice discord, and that everything happens according to discord and necessity.
28-Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
29-God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, abundance and famine.
30-Immortals, mortals; Mortals, the immortals; Some living the death of them, the others dying their lives.
31-Let's not guess randomly about the most important issues.
32-It is granted to every man to know himself and meditate wisely.
33-It is necessary for philosophers to inform themselves of many things.
34-Men try to purify themselves by staining themselves with blood. It is as if, after being stained with mud, they want to clean themselves with mud.
35-They are different waters that cover those who enter the same river.
36-You will not find the ends of the soul, not even going through all the ways; Such is its depth.
37-The opposite agrees, and from the discordants the most beautiful harmony is formed, and everything is engendered by discord.
38-The disease makes good and pleasant health, hunger to satiety, work to rest.
39-This cosmos, which is the same for all, has not been made by any of the gods or men, but has always been, is and will be an eternal and living fire that goes on and off obeying to measure.
40-Once born, they want to live and reach their destination, but rather rest, so they leave behind them to reach their destination.
41-It is prudent to listen to the Logos, not to me, and to acknowledge that all things are one.
42-The wise is the goal of the human soul and, as you advance in your knowledge, is moving away the horizon of the unknown.
43-Do not make yourself laugh to the point of giving cause for laughter.
44-Because without collision forces there are no movements and there is no reality.
45-The doctors cut, burn, torture. And making the sick a good, which seems more evil, demand a reward that almost do not deserve.
46-The way of being human does not have capacity for judgment; The divine does.
47. War is the father and king of all things.
48- No man stands in the same river twice, for he is never the same river and is never the same man.
49. Even a soul submerged in a deep sleep works hard and helps to do something in the world.
50- Of every one hundred men, 10 should not even be there, 8 are only cannon fodder, nine are the real fighters and we are fortunate to have them, for they will fight; Ah, but one, one is a warrior; And he will bring back the others.
51- Wisdom is to speak with the truth and act after it.
The character of a man is his destiny.
53- We are more ourselves when we assume the seriousness with which the child plays.
54. If you do not expect the unexpected you will never find it.
55. Men who wish to know the world must learn from it in detail.
56. It is difficult to contain the desire of the heart, since, whatever the price, it repays it with pieces of the soul.
Doing the same thing over and over and over again is not just boredom, it's being controlled by what you do instead of controlling what you do.
58. How can you hide from that which never leaves?
It is in the change that we find the purpose.
Let yourself think only of those thoughts that are your principles and bring the light of day.
61. From the differences are born the most beautiful harmonies.
62. All things flow, and that flow is subject to a unifying stream or rational principle.
63- LOGOS, the harmony hidden behind all the changes.
64. The content of your character is your choice.
65 - Day after day, what you choose, what you think and what you do; Is what you become.
66. Without injustice, the word justice would mean what?
67. What are men? Deadly Gods.
68- The way up and the way down, are the same.
69- Having everything you want is not good. Diseases make health better.
70. Even those of the greatest reputation for knowing everything defend, are nothing more than opinions.