Heraclitus Quotes
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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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The fairest harmony springs from discord.
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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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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We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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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 conceal ignorance than to expose it.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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Character is our destiny.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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It is wise to agree that all things are one.
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From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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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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Character is fate. (Destiny).
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If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.
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To God all things are beautiful and good and just.