Heraclitus Quotes
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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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Dogs bark at what they don't understand.
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The only constant in life is change.
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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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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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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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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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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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You cannot step twice into the same river.
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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Invisible harmony is better than visible.
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You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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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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Much learning does not teach sense.
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All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.