Heraclitus Quotes - Page 8

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Character is fate. (Destiny).

He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

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].

You can never step in the same river twice.

War is the father of all things.

All things flow, nothing abides.

Change is the only constant.

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.

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

All entities move and nothing remains still.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

The only constant is change.

We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

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.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

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.

The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

The seeing have the world in common.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own