You cannot step into the same river twice.

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About Heraclitus

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Heraclitus (; Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος, romanized: Hērákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both ancient and modern, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle,...

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

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People change and forget to tell each other.

—Lillian Hellman

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Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

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True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero—really look—and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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