Heraclitus Quotes
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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.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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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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He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
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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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The content of your # character is your # choice.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
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A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.
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The only constant in life is change.
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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Things keep their secrets.
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May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways.
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All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river.
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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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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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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.