Quotes About Philosophy

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

For when is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.

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

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

The road up and the road down is one and the same. (???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ????) —Fragment 60

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

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

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

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

Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls. (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.

Any day stands equal to the rest.

Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.

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It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.

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