Heraclitus Quotes
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Not I but the world says it: All is one.
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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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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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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Nature loves to hide.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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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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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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There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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All entities move and nothing remains still.
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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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You cannot step twice into the same river.
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Life is a child moving counters in a game.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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All things are in a state of flux.
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To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
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Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.