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121 " We must therefore be guided by what is common to all. The Logos is common to all, yet the multitude lives as if each had his own intelligence. "
― Heraclitus
122 " What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife. "
123 " The beginning is the end. "
― Heraclitus , Fragments
124 " A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet. "
125 " Βίος ανεόρταστος μακρά οδός απανδόκευτος (Uncelebrated life is like a long innless road) "
126 " The sun is new every day. (Fragment 6) "
127 " Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing, for the known way is an impasse. "
128 " The cosmos worksby harmony of tensions,like the lyre and bow. "
129 " Let us not make random conjectures about the greatest matters. "
130 " Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are. "
131 " Latent structure is master of obvious structure "
132 " One man is worth thousand if he is extraordinary "
133 " The death of fire is the birth of air, and the death of air is the birth of water. For it is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But water comes from earth; and from water, soul. Cold things become warm, and what is warm cools; what is wet dries, and the parched is moistened. And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old; the former are shifted and become the latter, and the latter in turn are shifted and become the former. "
― Heraclitus , Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments
134 " The soul is undiscoveredthough explored foreverto a depth beyond report. "
135 " We must realize that war is universal and strife is justice, and that all things come into the world and pass away through strife. "
136 " For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. "
137 " What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away. "
138 " Yolun gittiği yeri unutanı hatırla. "
139 " What use are these people's wits, who let themselves be led by speechmakers, in crowds, without considering how many fools and thieves they are among, and how fewchoose the good?The best choose progress toward one thing, a name forever honored by the gods, while others eat their way toward sleep like nameless oxen. "
140 " One ought not to act and speak like people asleep. "