"There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre."
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"Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river."
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"It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one."
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"Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep."
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"Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on."
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"The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings."
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"One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity."
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"Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own."
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"This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out."
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"For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former.""
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"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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"If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos]."
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"Everything is in flux."
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"To God all things are beautiful and good and just."
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"Character is our destiny."
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"Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child."
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"The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire."
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"He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one."
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"Nature loves to hide."
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"You can never step in the same river twice."
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