Heraclitus Quotes

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

~ Heraclitus

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

~ Heraclitus

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

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.

~ Heraclitus

All is flux

~ Heraclitus

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

~ Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.

~ Heraclitus

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

One thunderbolt strikesroot through everything

~ Heraclitus

The waking have one world in common, sleepers have each a private world of his own.

~ Heraclitus

Character is destiny

~ Heraclitus

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

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.

~ Heraclitus

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

~ Heraclitus

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.

~ Heraclitus

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

~ Heraclitus

Everything flows and nothing stays.

~ Heraclitus

Any day stands equal to the rest.

~ Heraclitus

Give me one manfrom among ten thousandif he is the best

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

~ Heraclitus

You can't step into the same river twice.

~ Heraclitus

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

~ Heraclitus

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

~ Heraclitus

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

~ Heraclitus

You cannot step into the same river twice.

~ Heraclitus

Nature is wont to hide herself.

~ Heraclitus

The sun is new each day.

~ Heraclitus

Much learning does not teach understanding.

~ Heraclitus