Heraclitus Quotes
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
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Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.
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War is the mother of everything.
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No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
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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. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.
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The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
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All is flux; nothing stays still.
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]