“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Nothing endures but change.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Character is destiny”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“All things come into being by conflict of opposites.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει.
(Everything changes, and no thing abides.)”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Dog bark at what they don't understand.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“The living and the dead,
The awake and the sleeping,
The young and the old are all one and the same.
When the ones change, they become the others.
When those shift again, they become these again.
God is day and night.
God is winter and summer.
God is war and peace.
God is fertility and famine.
He transforms into many things.
Day and night are one.
Goodness and badness are one.
The beginning and the end of a circle are one.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Everything flows, nothing stands still."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Tis not too late to seek a newer world”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Nature loves to hide.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Any day stands equal to the rest.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
“The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"The path of writing is crooked and straight”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"There is nothing permanent except change"
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"Big results require big ambitions."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"Day by day, what you do is who you become."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)
"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)