Heraclitus Quotes

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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• My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Balance
  • Opposites

• My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wealth
  • Subject
  • Discussing

• We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Respect
  • Progress
  • System

• It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Subject
  • Photo

• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • History

• We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Mother
  • Idea
  • Devil

• Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • City
  • Travel
  • Cities

• Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Health
  • Ideas

• Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Life
  • Great
  • Real

• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Risk
  • Wells
  • Philosophical

• If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
  • Success
  • Model

• There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Song

• Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Problem
  • Separate
  • Emerges

• What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Silence
  • Sound

• There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Harmony
  • Opposites
  • Lyre

• Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

  

  Plato
  • Things
  • Understood
  • Opposites

• Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Independent
  • Belief

• Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Power
  • Beauty
  • Tension

• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  

  William C. Dietz
  • Fighting
  • Stranger
  • Accepted

• It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • Readers opportunities

• Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Bored

• I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized the political, artistic and historical discourses about America. He created his particular and original language.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Important
  • Political
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Opposites
  • Subject
  • Emerges