Heraclitus Quotes
A Greek philosopher, known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and for establishing the term Logos in Western philosophy as meaning both the source and fundamental order of the Cosmos.
(c. 535 BC - 475 BC)
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All things flow, nothing abides.
[Time]
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Big results require big ambitions.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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Change alone is unchanging.
[Change]
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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
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Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
[Change]
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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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.
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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
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If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
[Against]
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It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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