Heraclitus Quotes
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Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
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Nothing is constant except change.
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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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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Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
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War is the father of all things.
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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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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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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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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What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
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Much learning does not teach sense.
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Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
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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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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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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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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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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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The path up and down is one and the same.
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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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It is in changing that things find purpose.