Quotes from Heraclitus

Silence, healing.

The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.

All are one

What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.

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

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

You can't step into the same river twice.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Nothing is permanent but change.

It is in changing that things find purpose.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

The sun is new each day.

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

War is the father and king of all.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.