Heraclitus Quotes - Page 7

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

The only thing that is constant is change.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

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.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

The only thing constant is change

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.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.