Quotes from Heraclitus

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

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

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

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

The people should fight for their law as for a wall.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

For when is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

All if flux, nothing stays still.

Character is our destiny.

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

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

Man's character is his fate.

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

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you.

The road up and the road down is one and the same. (???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ????) —Fragment 60

It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

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

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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.