Heraclitus Quotes
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It is in changing that things find purpose.
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The only thing constant is change.
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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 outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
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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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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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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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Change is the only constant.
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Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
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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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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
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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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War is the father and king of all.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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A man's character is his fate.
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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.