"This universe, which is the same for..." - Quote by Heraclitus
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
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“What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.”
“Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.”
“Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.”
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“There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.”
“In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.”
“All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.”
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“I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.”
“Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.”
“Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”