Heraclitus Famous Quotes
Reading Heraclitus quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Heraclitus. Righ click to see or save pictures of Heraclitus quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
You can never step in the same river twice.
γραφέων ὁδὸς εὐθεῖα καὶ σκολιὴ μία ἐστί, φησί, καὶ ἡ αὐτή
(The path of writing is crooked and straight)
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.
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
Dogs bark at what they don't understand.
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored
It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.
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.
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
The sun is new every day. (Fragment 6)
One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.
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.
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
Dog bark at what they don't understand.
Change alone is unchanging.
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.
(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)
Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
Greater dooms win greater destinies.
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Man is on earth as in an egg.
It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
What was scattered, gathers.
What was gathered, blows away
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting
One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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 Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
Change is the only constant.
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best
The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.
Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
One man is worth thousand if he is extraordinary
Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
Learning many things does not teach understanding
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.
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
You will not discover the limits of the soul
by traveling, even if you wander over every
conceivable path, so deep is its story.
The living, though they yearn
for consummation of their fate,
need rest, and in their turn leave
children to fulfil their doom.
Everything flows and nothing stays.
Nothing is, everything is becoming.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they
wish.
The fairest harmony springs from discord.
Silence, healing.
Things keep their secrets.
How can you hide from what never goes away?
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
Yearning hurts,
and what release
may come of it
feels much like death.
War is the father and king of all,
It is in changing that we find purpose.
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
Asses prefer garbage to gold.
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.
To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
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.
That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god or man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.
There is nothing peranent except change.
When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.
One cannot step twice in the same river
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
When they are born, they wish to live and to meet with their dooms - or rather to rest - and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn.
All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
It is better to conceal ignorance.
Any day stands
equal to the rest.
We must therefore be guided by what is common to all. The Logos is common to all, yet the multitude lives as if each had his own intelligence.
There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
