Heraclitus Quotes - Page 5

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

A dry soul is wisest and best.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

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.

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

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

It is wise to agree that all things are one.

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

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

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

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

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

Things keep their secrets.

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

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

Everything changes and nothing stands still.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

Nothing is constant except change

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

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