Heraclitus Quotes
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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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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The only constant is change.
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Day by day, what you do is who you become.
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War is the father of all things.
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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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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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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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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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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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Nothing is constant except change.
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Much learning does not teach sense.
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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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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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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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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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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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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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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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Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
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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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If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.