A Quote by Heraclitus

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Heraclitus

Quote Topics

Asleep Awake Away Common Each His Men Own Those Turns World

Quote Author

Heraclitus
Greek - Philosopher
544 BC - 483 BC

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Plutarch

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

Heraclitus

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Heraclitus

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

Heraclitus

That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

Adam Braun

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

Heraclitus

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.

Charles de Lint

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

Henry Ward Beecher

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas B. Macaulay

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

Jorge Luis Borges

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

Luigi Pirandello

"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

Lauren Oliver

The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.

George William Russell

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

Robert Bly

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

Paulo Coelho

The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several things in the world and makes them mingle.

Michel Serres

A Quote by Heraclitus

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors