Heraclitus Quotes

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

All things are in a state of flux.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

The results are in great need greater ambition.

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

The path up and down is one and the same.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Nature loves to hide.

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.

Much learning does not teach sense.

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

It is wise to agree that all things are one.

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

War is the father and king of all.

The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

You can never step in the same river twice.

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.

The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

Character is our destiny.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

All things flow, nothing abides.

The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

All entities move and nothing remains still.

A dry soul is wisest and best.

Nothing is constant except change

He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

The seeing have the world in common.

Everything is in flux.