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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. ↗

— Heraclitus

#god #hunger #night #peace #summer

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. ↗

— Heraclitus

#hide #ignorance #our #reveals #soon

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. ↗

— Heraclitus

#exact #eyes #more #than #witnesses

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just. ↗

— Heraclitus

#everything #god #good #however #humans

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ↗

— Heraclitus

#assistance #greek #i #i am #librarians

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#forcibly #immoral #oppressive #person #rate

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#directly #drives #existence #first #force

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#any #being #compulsion #done #element

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#bitter #evil #i #lies #prophesy

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

#back #especially #get #go #good