A Quote by Heraclitus

You cannot step into the same river twice. — © Heraclitus
You cannot step into the same river twice.

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Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too
You cannot step twice into the same river.
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
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.
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.
No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
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.
You can never step in the same river twice.
You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.
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.
Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?
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