Heraclitus Quotes
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You cannot step twice into the same river.
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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The way up and the way down are one and the same.
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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 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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You cannot step into the same river twice.
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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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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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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.
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The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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Much learning does not teach sense.
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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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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
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Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
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Things keep their secrets.
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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
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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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The only constant in life is change.
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It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
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This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.