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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Heraclitus

Life, Philosophy, Sleep

Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.69, Penguin

A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.

Heraclitus

Blow, Men, Thinking

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Heraclitus

Men, World, Common

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Heraclitus

Inspirational, Change, Philosophical

Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.97, Penguin

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

Change, Nature, Travel

"Cratylus". Dialogue by Plato, 1826.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Heraclitus

Science, Discovery, Unexpected

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

Encounters, Doe, Prosperity

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

Heraclitus

Doe, Unexpected, Unexplored

Heraclitus (1981). “The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Heraclitus

Thinking, Doe, Unexpected

The results are in great need greater ambition.

Heraclitus

Ambition, Needs, Results

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

Heraclitus

Education, Book, Reading

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Heraclitus

Children, Moving, Games

"The Art and Thought of Heraclitus". Book by Charles H. Kahn, 1979.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Heraclitus

Men, All Things, Fairs

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Heraclitus

Men, Wish, Details

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Heraclitus

War, Justice, Passing Away

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Heraclitus

Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.5, Philaletheians UK