Quotes from Heraclitus

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

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

The content of your # character is your # choice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

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

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.

Learning many things does not teach understanding

Much learning does not teach sense.

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

Character is destiny.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.