Heraclitus Quotes
Everything flows, nothing stands still.
Character is destiny.
Nothing endures but change.
No man ever steps in the same river twice.
The sun is new every day.
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
It is what opposes that helps.
He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not.
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream
All things come into being by conflict of opposites, and the sum of things flows like a stream.
When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made. But it always was and will be: an ever-living fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out.
