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“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

Philosophy Play Wisdom Time Games Leisure Heraclitus Fragment 52

Book:Fragments

Source: Fragments

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

Philosophy Wisdom Sleep Heraclitus

Book:Fragments

Source: Fragments

“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.”

Philosophy Wisdom Heraclitus

Book:Fragments

Source: Fragments

“To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.”

Philosophy Wisdom Open Mindedness Heraclitus

Book:Fragments

Source: Fragments

“Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.”

Philosophy Wisdom Heraclitus

Book:Fragments

Source: Fragments

“People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.”

Philosophy Wisdom Freedom Heraclitus

Book:Fragments

Source: Fragments

“Aquil que fun non son, por iso estamos xuntos os dous. Aquil que entonces era como un río fuxiu, pero quedouse coma o río que pasa e sempre queda.”

Change Identity Impermanence Saudade Heraclitus

Book:O Soño Sulagado

Source: O Soño Sulagado

“You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same.”

Philosophy Childhood Heraclitus

Book:The fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on nature; translated from the Greek text of Bywater, with an introd. historical and critical

Source: The fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on nature; translated from the Greek text of Bywater, with an introd. historical and critical

“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s not the same country name and he’s not the same citizen.”

Philosophy Politics Satire Aphorism Citizen Eu Native Country Heraclitus Macedonian

Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land

“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely changeable. For it was from this supposition that there blossomed forth the most extreme view of those which we have mentioned, that of the professed followers of Heraclitus, and such as Cratylus held, who ended by thinking that one need not say anything, and only moved his finger; and who criticized Heraclitus for saying that one cannot enter the same river twice, for he himself held that it cannot be done even once.”

Metaphysics Heraclitus Cratylus

Author:Aristotle