{"id":15007,"date":"2022-10-16T22:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=15007"},"modified":"2024-09-16T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T23:03:41","slug":"quotes-from-ancient-greek-philosopher-heraclitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=15007","title":{"rendered":"Quotes from ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heraclitus is an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the 5<sup>th<\/sup> century BC. \u00a0Little is known of his life but he has been described as a misanthrope who was subject to melancholia \u2013 and he gained the title of the weeping philosopher. The central theme of Heraclitus\u2019s philosophy is that the world as constantly in flux, changing as it remained the same.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it&#8217;s not the same river and he&#8217;s not the same man.<\/li>\n<li>Character is destiny.<\/li>\n<li>A man&#8217;s character is his fate.<\/li>\n<li>Big results require big ambitions.<\/li>\n<li>There is nothing permanent except change.<\/li>\n<li>Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.<\/li>\n<li>Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.<\/li>\n<li>It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.<\/li>\n<li>Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.<\/li>\n<li>Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.<\/li>\n<li>The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.<\/li>\n<li>Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer or experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heraclitus is an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the 5th century BC. \u00a0Little is known of his life but he has been described as a misanthrope who was subject to melancholia \u2013 and he gained the title of the weeping philosopher. The central theme of Heraclitus\u2019s philosophy is that the world as constantly in flux,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[73,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16167,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions\/16167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}