Heraclitus Quotes

“War is the father and king of all.”

“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.”

“Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.”

“He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored”

“The seeing have the world in common.”

“Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.”

“There is nothing permanent in the world except change.”

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

“Day by day, what you do is who you become.”

“If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.”

“Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.”

“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.”

“There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.”

“There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]”

“Not I but the world says it: All is one.”

“Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.Nothing endures but change.”

“Learning many things does not teach understanding”

“To be evenmindedis the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.”

“Nothing endures but change.”

“Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.”

“It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.”

“All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.”

“The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.”

“To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.”

“Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.”