Heraclitus Quotes
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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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Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
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It is in changing that things find purpose.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
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Change is the only constant.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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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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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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We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
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Man is on earth as in an egg.
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
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The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
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You can never step in the same river twice.
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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
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War is the father and king of all.
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A man's character is his fate.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
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Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.