Quotes from Heraclitus

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

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.

Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.

The sun is the width of a human foot.

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.

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.

Dog bark at what they don't understand.

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

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Everything flows, nothing stands still.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls. (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Nature loves to hide.

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.