Quotes from Heraclitus

All is flux

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

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

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.

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

Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best

Any day stands equal to the rest.

Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign. The Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her.

A man's character is his fate.

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.

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

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.

It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.

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

Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.