Heraclitus
[aka Heraclitus]
[aka the Riddler]
[aka the Obscure One]

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The goal of philosophy is not to know the world,
but rather to put men on the right path.

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Most of what is divine escapes recognition through unbelief.

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We should let ourselves be guided by what is common to all.
Yet, although the Logos is common to all, most men live
as if each of them had a private intelligence of his own.

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Men who love wisdom must inquire into very many things.

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"Listening to the Logos rather than to me,
it is wise to agree that all things are in reality
one thing, and one thing only."

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 Men have no comprehension of the Logos, as I've described it,
just as much after they hear about it as they did before they
heard about it. Even though all things occur according to the
Logos, men seem to have no experience whatsoever, even when
they experience the words and deeds which I use to explain
physis, of how the Logos applies to each thing, and what it is.
The rest of mankind are just as unconscious of what they do
while awake as they are of what they do while they sleep.

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The things of which there is seeing and
hearing and perception, these do I prefer.

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The path up and down is one and the same.

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Disease makes health pleasant and
good, hunger satiety, weariness rest.

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Dogs bark at every one they do not know!

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The soul is a spark of the essential substance of the stars

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Man's character is his daimon.
['daimon' derives from 'daemon', which refers to the one
with an attendant power of spirit (as 4X Socrates' daemon)]

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Those who speak with sense must rely on
what is common to all, as a city must rely
on its law, and with much greater reliance.

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How can one hide oneself
before that which never sets.

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Rising (out of self-concealing) bestows favor upon self-concealing.

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World, the same for all, no god or man made,
but it always was, is, and will be,
an ever-living fire, being kindled in measures,
and being put out in measures.

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Much learning does not teach common sense.

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