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All things flow, nothing abides.
— Heraclitus
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.
— Heraclitus
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The results are in great need greater ambition.
— Heraclitus
All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.
— Ezra Pound
Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
— Heraclitus
Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
— Heraclitus
War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
— Heraclitus
Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
— Plutarch
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
— Heraclitus Of Ephesus
[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
— Heraclitus
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
— 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
Ethos anthropoi daimon
a man's character is his fate. — Heraclitus
a man's character is his fate. — Heraclitus
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
— Heraclitus
Much learning does not teach understanding.
— Heraclitus
It is better to conceal ignorance.
— Heraclitus
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
— Heraclitus
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
— Heraclitus
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
— Heraclitus
The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
— Heraclitus
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
— Heraclitus
Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.
— Heraclitus
You can never step in the same river twice.
— Heraclitus
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
— Heraclitus
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
— Heraclitus
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
— Heraclitus
Day by day, what you do is who you become.
— Heraclitus
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
— Heraclitus
Everything is in flux.
— Heraclitus
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
— Heraclitus
Dog bark at what they don't understand.
— Heraclitus
Man's character is his fate.
— Heraclitus
War is the father and king of all,
— Heraclitus
Life is a child moving counters in a game.
— Heraclitus
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
— Heraclitus
It is wise to agree that all things are one.
— Heraclitus
Everything flows, nothing stays still.
— Heraclitus
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
— Heraclitus
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
— Heraclitus
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
— Heraclitus
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
— Heraclitus
The track of writing is straight and crooked.
— Heraclitus
The only constant in life is change
— Heraclitus
What allows us to be human is something daemonic.
— Heraclitus
What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.
— Heraclitus
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored
— Heraclitus
May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
— Heraclitus
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
— Heraclitus
The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.
(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna) — Heraclitus
(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna) — Heraclitus
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
— Heraclitus
Asses prefer garbage to gold.
— Heraclitus
It is in changing that things find purpose.
— Heraclitus
Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
— Heraclitus
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.
— Heraclitus
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
— Heraclitus
One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything — Heraclitus
root through everything — Heraclitus
Latent structure is master of obvious structure
— Heraclitus
It is in changing that we find purpose.
— Heraclitus
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
— 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
Much learning does not teach sense.
— Heraclitus