Top 230 Quotes & Sayings by Heraclitus - Page 4
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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
War is the father and king of all.
Character is fate. (Destiny).
Nature is accustomed to hide itself.
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
The seeing have the world in common.
The path up and down is one and the same.
This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
A dry soul is wisest and best.
War is the father of all things.
All entities move and nothing remains still.
The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.
The only constant is change. Unless you get a small group of neighbors together to stop it.
Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
All things flow, nothing abides.
We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
You can never step in the same river twice.
The only constant is change.
There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
Nothing is constant except change
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
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.
Character is our destiny.
He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
Nature loves to hide.
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
All things are in a state of flux.
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
Change is the only constant.
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
There is nothing peranent except change.
The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
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].
All is flux; nothing stays still.
Everything is in flux.
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
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.
Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
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