Heraclitus Quotes
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
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Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.
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Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
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Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
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There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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The only constant is change.
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There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
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The results are in great need greater ambition.
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
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You can never step in the same river twice.
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We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
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The only thing constant is change.
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War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
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I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before.