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.
HeraclitusRead
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
Interpretation
Unity and diversity are interconnected; the individual elements arise from a larger whole.
This quote by Heraclitus emphasizes the philosophical concept of unity in diversity. It suggests that while the world is composed of many individual and distinct parts, these particulars originate from a fundamental oneness, and in turn, the diversity seen in the world can be understood as expressions of this underlying unity. It's a reflection on how seemingly separate entities or experiences are ultimately interconnected and arise from a shared source.
In practice
In a community gathering, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of unity in diversity.
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.
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: βLiving and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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