Heraclitus Quotes

All is flux, nothing is stationary.

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

There is nothing peranent except change.

All is flux

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

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

All are one

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

Nothing endures but change.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

One thunderbolt strikesroot through everything

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

Character is destiny

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.

You cannot step into the same river twice

Any day stands equal to the rest.

Give me one manfrom among ten thousandif he is the best

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

You can't step into the same river twice.

Everything flows nothing stays still.

You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.

All things flow nothing abides.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.