Heraclitus Quotes

There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

Everything changes and nothing stands still.

The only constant is change.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.

The only constant in life is change

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

The only thing constant is change

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Change is the only constant.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

War is the father of all things.

Character is fate. (Destiny).

All is flux; nothing stays still.

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

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.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

Everything flows and nothing stays.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.