Quote #17
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
More from Heraclitus
- Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
- Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
- When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.
- The people should fight for their law as if defending the city's wall.
- Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
- It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
- The road up and the road down is one and the same.
- Character is destiny.