Heraclitus Quotes
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All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
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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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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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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 unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
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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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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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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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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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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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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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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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He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
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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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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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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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Character is fate. (Destiny).
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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
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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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From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.