336 Quotes by Heraclitus


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    The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

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    Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

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    What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

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    No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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    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.

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    When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

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