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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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It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old.
Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.
It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
Corpses are more fit to be cast out than dung.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
You cannot step twice into the same river.
Although the Law of Reason is common, the majority of people live as though they had an understanding of their own.
Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.
All human laws are nourished by one divine law.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
To those who are awake, there is one world in common, but of those who are asleep, each is withdrawn to a private world of his own.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.
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