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 gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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Everything is in flux.
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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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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
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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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You cannot step into the same river twice.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
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The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.
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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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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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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
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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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Character is fate. (Destiny).
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
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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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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.