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„Although the Law of Reason is common, the majority of people live as though they had an understanding of their own.“
„Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.“
„Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (1942–1943)“
„War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free.“
„Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.“
„Much learning does not teach understanding.“
„:* Proclus in Alcib. p. 255 Creuzer, = 525 ed. Cous. ii.“
„Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.“
„Greater fates gain greater rewards“
„It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.“
„All entities move and nothing remains still.“
„Nature is wont to hide herself.“
„The people must fight for its law as for its walls.“
„Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.“
„Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.“
„The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.“
„The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.“
„The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.“
„Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.“
„Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.“
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