Who do you recommend reading after Heraclitus?
Schopenhauer…then Nietzsche…then Heidegger…
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Literally no-thing…
There is no void…no singularity…no absolute order/chaos…all is process.
All is energy
Free-will…
Strength determines how much resistance you can overcome - determining the quantity and quality of your options.
Strength/Power = freedom - freedom to, a master’s freedom.
Freedom-from is a slave’s freedom - salvation.
Those who deny free-will are slaves dreaming of absolute freedom from causality, from their past, from nature…from existence.
Knowledge = first or second-hand collection/memorization of patterns.
Understanding = perceiving the underlying patterns in knowledge.
Conflicts is existence…Interactivity - Flux.
War is existence…War is necessity. It is necessary.
Inheritance determines potentials.
Personality = organ hierarchies (nature) - true self.
Character (nurture) = determined by environmental circumstances. Public self - social performer. Caricature of one’s innate personae.
Understanding language (semiotics) is understanding how thinking relates to reality.
Know thyself begins with understanding what language is - its utility
Truth is an approach towards nature - objective reality.
Truth is not pleasing…nor comforting…it requires a strong constitution (endurance) to be acknowledge and a stronger one to be spoken among the feeble minded.
The masses cannot tolerate truth…they need comforting, sheltering, lies. These they call ‘truths.’
Philosophy is not for everyone.
You may believe you ‘love’ wisdom, and that wisdom loves you…but your love is blind.
One must be a friend (agape) to wisdom, not a lover (eros).
Pathos corrupts reason.
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All the things we see when awake are death, even as all we see in slumber are sleep.
How many oenochoes did you enjoy today Heraclitus? Maybe all you should see some slumber, my friend, and you’re putting us all on a downer. Serving wench, call a cab for Heraclitus.
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Those who seek for gold dig up much earth and find a little.
Such are all things which are precious in life. Rare and hard to obtain. Maybe they are precious because they are rare? If so, if soil was rare and gold plentiful, would we chip through all that useless gold to get at the soil?
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Men would not have known the name of justice if these things were not.
If there was no evil, we wouldn’t be able to distinguish good. But most actions lie somewhere between.
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Gods and men honour those who are slain in battle.
I hope so, otherwise, what is the point?
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Greater deaths win greater portions.
The death of one thing can bring life to another, sometimes many others.
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Man kindles a light for himself in the night-time, when he has dies but is alive. The sleeper, whose vision has been put out, lights up from the dead; he that is awake lights up from the sleeping.
Will I wake up? Is the question many might ask themselves. But it’s a stupid question, because is there a better way to leave the mortal realm than during one’s sleep?
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There awaits men when they die such things as they look not for nor dream of.
He’s been on the enochoes again 
, stop going on about death Heraclitus, you’re bringing the mood right down you know.
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The most esteemed of them knows but fancies, and holds fast to them, yet of a truth justice shall overtake the artificers of lies and the false witnesses.
Justice is the most stable configuration. It will always reassert itself sooner or later, sometimes quite violently. That’s when heads begin to roll.
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For even the best of them choose one thing above all others, immortal glory among mortals, while most of them are glutted like beasts.
True. If you don’t watch your diet and get some exercise, then immortality is going to be very short.
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This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out.
