Heraclitus Quotes
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The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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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]
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
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Character is our destiny.
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The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
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Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
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If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
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Everything is in flux.
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.