Heraclitus Quotes
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.
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Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
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No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
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The seeing have the world in common.
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It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
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The only thing that is constant is change.
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
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All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.
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The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
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The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
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For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."