Heraclitus Quotes
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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Everything is in flux.
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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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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
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This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
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The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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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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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
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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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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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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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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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There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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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.
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To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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Character is fate. (Destiny).
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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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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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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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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.