Heraclitus Quotes
"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
- Heraclitus
(Related: People, Goal, Fame)
"Much learning does not teach understanding."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Learning, Understanding)
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Man)
"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Men, World)
"Nothing endures but change."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Change, Nothing)
"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Harmony, Opposition)
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Happiness, Envy)
"The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three."
- Heraclitus
"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Eyes)
"The sun is new each day."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Day, Sun)
"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Man, Play, Seriousness)
"There is nothing permanent except change."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Change, Nothing)
"Nature is wont to hide herself."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Nature)
"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."
- Heraclitus
(Related: God)
"You cannot step into the same river twice."
- Heraclitus
"You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Rivers)
"The way up and the way down are one and the same."
- Heraclitus
"Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung."
- Heraclitus
"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Danger, Prosperity)
"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Justice, Lies, Will)
"A man's character is his fate."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Character, Fate, Man)
"A man's character is his guardian divinity."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Character, Divinity, Man)
"Big results require big ambitions."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Results)
"Bigotry is the sacred disease."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Bigotry, Disease)
"Character is destiny."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Character, Destiny)
"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things."
- Heraclitus
"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Fire, Violence)
"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Universe, Workers)
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
- Heraclitus
(Related: People, Eyes, Poor)
"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
- Heraclitus
(Related: War, Peace, God, Day, Hunger, Night, Summer, Winter)
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Character, Day, Effort)
"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Evening, Ignorance, Will, Wine)
"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Libraries, Poets)
"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Will)
"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Soul, Heart, Desire, Wishes)
"Change alone is unchanging."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Change)