Heraclitus Men Quotations

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

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

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

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

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.

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.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.

The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished....

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos men are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.