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Quotes from Heraclitus


"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one." ~Heraclitus of Ephesus

"A man"s character is his fate." ~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

"Change is the only constant." ~Heraclitus

"Nothing endures but change." ~Heraclitus

"Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed." ~Heraclitus 

"To be evenminded is the greatest virtue." ~Heraclitus

"Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature." ~Heraclitus

"You cannot step into the same river twice." ~Heraclitus

BIO

"Heraclitus (born c. 540 bce, Ephesus, Anatolia [now Selçuk, Turkey]—died c. 480) was a Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology, in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe. Little is known about his life, and the one book he apparently wrote is lost. His views survive in the short fragments quoted and attributed to him by later authors.

Though he was primarily concerned with explanations of the world around him, Heraclitus also stressed the need for people to live together in social harmony. He complained that most people failed to comprehend the logos (Greek: “reason”), the universal principle through which all things are interrelated and all natural events occur, and thus lived like dreamers with a false view of the world. A significant manifestation of the logos, Heraclitus claimed, is the underlying connection between opposites. For example, health and disease define each other. Good and evil, hot and cold, and other opposites are similarly related. In addition, he noted that a single substance may be perceived in varied ways—seawater is both harmful (for human beings) and beneficial (for fishes). His understanding of the relation of opposites to each other enabled him to overcome the chaotic and divergent nature of the world, and he asserted that the world exists as a coherent system in which a change in one direction is ultimately balanced by a corresponding change in another. Between all things there is a hidden connection, so that those that are apparently “tending apart” are actually “being brought together.”" (Britannica)
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Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.82, Penguin


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