Heraclitus Quotes

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

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Nothing endures but change.

A man's character is his fate.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The sun is new each day.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Big results require big ambitions.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Character is destiny.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.