Quote #46

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

More from Heraclitus

  1. The sun is new each day.
  2. There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
  3. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.…
  4. To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
  5. The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
  6. To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
  7. The most perfect mind is a dry light.
  8. Uncomprehending when they have heard, they are like the deaf. The saying describes them: though present they are absent.

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