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Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus
Change

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Heraclitus
Change

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Heraclitus
Burial

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
Change

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus
Change

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Heraclitus
Bores and Boredom

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Heraclitus
Detail

Man s character is his fate.
Heraclitus
Character

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Heraclitus
God

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
Heraclitus
Immortality

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
Heraclitus
Sleep

Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus
Bigotry

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus
Adversity

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus
Expectation

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Heraclitus
Danger

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus
Education

A man s character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
Character

Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
Character