Quotes from Heraclitus

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

The only constant in life is change

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

The only thing constant is change

Change is the only constant.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

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

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

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

A man's character is his fate.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

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

Nothing endures but change.

All things flow nothing abides.

You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

Everything flows and nothing stays.