Heraclitus Quotes - Page 3

Change alone is unchanging.

If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

The sun is new each day.

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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

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

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

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

Much learning does not teach sense.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Man is on earth as in an egg.

I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

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.

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

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

Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'