Heraclitus Quotes
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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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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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Much learning does not teach sense.
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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.
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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 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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He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
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Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
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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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The path up and down is one and the same.
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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The only constant is change.
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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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War is the father of all things.
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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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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.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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The results are in great need greater ambition.
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It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.
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Nothing is constant except change.
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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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.