Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Heraclitus

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The sun is the width of a human foot.

Heraclitus

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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γραφέων ὁδὸς εὐθεῖα καὶ σκολιὴ μία ἐστί, φησί, καὶ ἡ αὐτή

(The path of writing is crooked and straight)

Heraclitus

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ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάντατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες

(Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.)

Heraclitus

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τήν τε οἴησιν ἱερὰν νόσον ἔλεγε καὶ τὴν ὅρασιν ψεύδεσθαι

(Thinking is a sacred disease, and sight is deceptive.)

Heraclitus

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Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει.

(Everything changes, and no thing abides.)

Heraclitus

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Σίβυλλα δὲ μαινομένῳ στόματι καθ' Ἡράκλειτον ἀγέλαστα καὶ ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ ἀμύριστα φθεγγομένη χιλίων ἐτῶν ἐξικνεῖται τῇ φονῇ διὰ τὸν θεόν

(And the Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her.)

Heraclitus

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What are men? Mortal gods.
What are gods? Immortal men.

Heraclitus

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The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman.

Heraclitus

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