Quotes About Unity

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

The road up and the road down is one and the same. (???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ????) —Fragment 60

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

Nature loves to hide.

Any day stands equal to the rest.

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.

One thunderbolt strikes root through everything

Although the Word is common to all, many live as if they had a private understanding of their own

We must therefore be guided by what is common to all. The Logos is common to all, yet the multitude lives as if each had his own intelligence.

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.

The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow.

Under the comb the tangle and the straight path are the same.

The unseen harmony is better than the visible

That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god or man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.

The waking have one world in common. Sleepers meanwhile turn aside, each into a darkness of his own.

Thinking is common to all.

The oneness of all wisdom may be found, or not, under the name of God.

Graspings: wholes and not wholes, convergent divergent, consonant dissonant, from all things one and from one thing all.

That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god nor man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.

Sleeping people live in their own world; only those who are awake have a world in common.