Heraclitus: Many

Heraclitus is pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on many.
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“The many are mean; only the few are noble.”

Heraclitus

in Eric Hoffer, Between the Devil and the Dragon (New York: 1982), p. 108

“Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.”

Heraclitus

As quoted Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 140, 6 (Fragment 35)

Love , Wisdom , Men

“Many statements paraphrase or extend upon his famous assertions that "everything changes" in ways which arguably diverge from valid translation, and yet have become widely attributed to Heraclitus:
Change is the only constant.
There is nothing permanent except change.”

Heraclitus

Disputed

Way , Change

“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.”

Heraclitus

G.T.W. Patrick, 1889 http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm
Variant: 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.

Men , Understanding , Sense , Teachers

“Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.”

Heraclitus

Fragment 2, as quoted in Against the Mathematicians by Sextus Empiricus
Variant translation: So we must follow the common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
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Wisdom