Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesuswas a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the apparently riddled and allegedly paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
knowing insight teach
Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.
order statistics world
The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
listening deaf absent
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
wise listening all-things
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
wall fighting law
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
path up-and-down
The path up and down is one and the same.
wisdom heard knows
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
believe divine lost
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
stupidity secret
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
fire violence deliberate
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire
education learning greek
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
caught left-behind behinds
What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
knowledge people understanding
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
giving oracles lord
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign