Heraclitus Quotes - Page 9

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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

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Nature, Science, Natural

The path up and down is one and the same.

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Journey, Hiking, Path

c.500 BC Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds) The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

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Wise, Unity, Listening

"Fragments (Fragment 50)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

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Opposites, Born, Strife

Nature loves to hide.

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Nature, Science, Natural

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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Summer, God, Peace

"Fragments (Fragment 67)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.

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Wall, Fighting, Law

War is the father and king of all.

Heraclitus

Kings, Father, War

Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.13, Philaletheians UK

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

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Night, Men, Light

"Fragments (Fragment 26)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

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Life, Wall, Fighting

Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.76, Penguin

All is flux, nothing is stationary.

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Flux, Stationary

c.500 BC Quoted in Aristotle De caelo, bk.3, pt.1.18.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

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Philosophy, Oneness, Unity

"Fragments (Fragment 10)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

There is nothing peranent except change.

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Change

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

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Rivers, Substance, Steps