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535 BC–475 BC Greece
Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC) was a Greek philosopher, known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and for establishing the term Logos (λόγος) in Western philosophy as meaning both the source and fundamental order of the Cosmos.
Greece Philosophers Physicists Also known as: Heraclitus of Ephesus, Heracleitus, Herakleitos
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
Change he called a pathway up and down, and this determines the birth of the world.
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.
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.
Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
The many are mean; only the few are noble.
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
The people must fight for its law as for its walls.
All entities move and nothing remains still.
Dogs bark at every one they do not know.
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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