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     Heraclitus Quotes about Life: The 10 Most Striking and Bright Phrases of the Philosopher of Fire. Messages, Quotes, Excerpts and Motivational Phrases!

Who was Heraclitus of Ephesus?

     Heraclitus of Ephesus (approximately 500 BC - 450 BC) was a pre-Socratic philosopher considered the "Father of the dialectic". He received the nickname "Obscuro" mainly because of the work attributed to him by Diógenes Laércio, On Nature, in an obscure style, close to that of oracular sentences.

     In the philosophical vulgate, Heraclitus is the thinker of "everything flows" (panta rei, synthesizing the idea of a world in perpetual movement, in opposition to the Parmenides paradigm) and fire, which would be the element from which everything surrounding us derives.

     From his writings few fragments remained (found in later works), which generated a large number of explanatory works.

     Heraclitus was born in Ephesus, a city in Ionia (present-day Turkey). He was about forty years old at the 69th Olympics (504-501 B.C.). He was a man of high feelings, proud and full of contempt for others.

Heraclitus phrases about Life:

"Tough is the fight against desire, which buys what it wants at the expense of the soul."

"Nothing is permanent, except change."

"There is nothing permanent except change."

"The man's character is his demon."

"Thought is a quality proper to the soul, which multiplies itself."

Philosophical Quotes of Heraclitus:

"Let us stop asking what the future holds and receive as a gift whatever that brings us today."

"War is the mother and queen of all things; some transform it into gods, others into men; from some it makes slaves, from others, free men."

"Nobody enters the same river a second time, because when that happens, it is no longer the same, as well as the waters that will already be different."

"Wisdom is the goal of the human soul; but as a person progresses in his knowledge, he sees the horizon of the unknown farther and farther away."

"Hiding ignorance is better than making it public."

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