Heraclitus Quotes
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There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
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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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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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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
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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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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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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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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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The only constant is change.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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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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It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.
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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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Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
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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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War is the father of all things.
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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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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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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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Nothing is constant except change.