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# For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. … - Heraclitus
" "# For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. (G.T.W. Patrick, 1889)
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About Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC) was a Greek philosopher, known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and for establishing the term Logos (λόγος) in Western philosophy as meaning both the source and fundamental order of the Cosmos.
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Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος
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Heraclitus of Ephesus
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Weeping Philosopher
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