Heraclitus Quotations | Page 2

Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

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

Everything is in flux.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

The path up and down is one and the same.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

Nature loves to hide.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

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

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

The only thing constant is change

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

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

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

All is flux, nothing is stationary.

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.

We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

Character is fate. (Destiny).

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

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

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

What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away

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

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice ...

It is wise to agree that all things are one.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.

All things are in a state of flux.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

It is in changing that things find purpose.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

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

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

One cannot step twice in the same river

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

A man's character is his fate.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Nature is wont to hide herself

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

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.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

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

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

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.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.

You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

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....

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Not I but the world says it: All is one.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

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

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

The only thing that is constant is change.

There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]

We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations...

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.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

The only constant is change.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. 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. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.