Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesuswas a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the apparently riddled and allegedly paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
years voice mouths
The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.
peace harmony discord
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
wisdom oneness understanding
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
inspirational all-things
All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
cutting doctors sick
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
philosophy philosophical rivers
One cannot step twice in the same river
opposites together sound
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.
wise wisdom men
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
education learning greek
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
stupidity secret
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
wisdom heard knows
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
path up-and-down
The path up and down is one and the same.
wall fighting law
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.