All Quotes by Heraclitus
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
“Nothing endures but change.”
“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.”
“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
“Time is a game”
“Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.”
“Greater fates gain greater rewards”
“The many are mean; only the few are noble.”
“Although the Law of Reason is common, the majority of people live as though they had an understanding of their own.”
“Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.”
“All human laws are nourished by one divine law.”
“The sun is new each day.”
“Change alone is unchanging.”
“You cannot step into the same river twice.”
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
“Nothing endures but change.”
“The sun is new each day.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
“A man's character is his fate.”
“Nothing endures but change.”
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
“Change alone is unchanging.”
“A man's character is his guardian divinity.”
“Nature is wont to hide herself.”
“To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.”
“It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.”
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“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.”
“Big results require big ambitions.”
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.”
“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”
“Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.”
“I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.”
“Bigotry is the sacred disease.”
“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.”
“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.”
“No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.”
“Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.”
“Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.”
“You cannot step into the same river twice.”
“The sun is new each day.”
“If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.”
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
“Character is destiny.”
“The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.”
“Stupidity is doomed,”
“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.”
“Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.”
“Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.”
“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”
“Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.”
“You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”
“Nothing endures but change.”
“Change alone is unchanging.”
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”