A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

ἁρμονίη ἀφανὴς φανερῆς κρείττων.

Heraclitus

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B54.

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Heraclitus. Fragments, translated by Brooks Haxton. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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A quote by Heraclitus about interconnectedness of all things: “A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.”

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One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on.

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B12.

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Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, DK B12.

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Another quote about Interconnectedness of all things

Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836, ch. 1.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures. Library of America, 1983, ch. 1.

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Another quote from the 5th century BC

If cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own.

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Xenophanes. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK21 B15.

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Xenophanes. "Xenophanes of Colophon." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford World Classics, 2009, DK21 B15.

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But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.

Jesus

John 11:22

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 11:22).

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Another quote originally in Greek

Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; or as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you.