Heraclitean Quotes

#1. The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.
(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#2. Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Philip Johnson

#3. This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.

Neal Stephenson

#4. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

Nikola Tesla

#5. I think ultimately Obama's ability to rebuild America's image in the world will depend less on his personal good will and more his ability to rebuild an American economic model that seems stable and humane and dynamic.

Peter Beinart

#6. The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

Annie Dillard

#7. Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

#8. I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

George MacDonald

#9. I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

Solange Knowles

#10. The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

Padmasree Warrior

#11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Bobby Ray Inman

#12. Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Isaac D'Israeli