Top 100 Quotes About Heraclitus
#1. [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.
Rajneesh
#3. Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).
Dorothy L. Sayers
#4. [Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.
Annie Dillard
#6. Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
Plutarch
#7. They told me,Heraclitus,they told me
you are dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear
and bitter tears to shed ...
I wept when i remembered how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking,and sent him down the sky.
Callimachus
#8. I have been in love with the thought of Heraclitus.
Rajneesh
#10. We think of life as solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid. Old Heraclitus couldn't have stepped in the same river once, let alone twice.
Jim Harrison
#11. At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
Nicolas Chamfort
#13. Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. The road up and the road down are one and the same.
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H.I.M.
#15. [Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Big results require big ambitions. ~ Heraclitus
B.L. Norris
#17. The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change ... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.
Philip K. Dick
#18. All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. Causality was no longer the hidden demiurge that ruled the universe: down was up, the last was the first, the end was the beginning. Heraclitus had been resurrected from his dung heap, and what he had to show us was the simplest of truths: reality was a yo-yo, change was the only constant.
Paul Auster
#20. Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk ... somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.
Callimachus
#21. Your mind is like Heraclitus' river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psychology William James' "stream of consciousness," a bubbling, babbling brook. Your mind constantly produces different currents of associations, different swirls of thought, and different moods.
Howard Bloom
#22. There's a line from Heraclitus: No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.
Tom Rachman
#23. Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
Plutarch
#24. As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.
Plutarch
#25. Everything flows, nothing stands still.
Heraclitus, 501 B.C.
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#26. The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan.
Fritjof Capra
#27. Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;
Aristotle.
#30. All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.
Ezra Pound
#31. Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. [Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
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#35. Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.
Michael Ondaatje
#36. That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche ... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water ... The psyche lusts to be wet.
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#38. Greater dooms win greater destinies.
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#39. All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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#40. May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
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#42. Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
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#43. You will not discover the limits of the soul
by traveling, even if you wander over every
conceivable path, so deep is its story.
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#44. One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.
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#45. There is nothing peranent except change.
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#46. Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
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#47. Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
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#48. To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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#49. If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.
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#50. Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
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#51. It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.
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#52. Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
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#53. Let us not make random conjectures about the greatest matters.
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#54. The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
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#55. Much learning does not teach understanding.
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#56. The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
Nothing endures but change.
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#59. This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
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#60. The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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#61. The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
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#62. Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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#63. Life is a child moving counters in a game.
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#64. It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
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#65. It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
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#66. What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
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#67. All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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#69. 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.
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#70. If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
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#71. If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
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#72. It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
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#73. It is in changing that things find purpose.
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#74. The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
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#75. War is the father and king of all,
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#76. The world, an entity out of everything,
was created by none of the gods or men,
but was, is and will be eternally living
fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg-
ularly becoming extinguished ...
Heraclitus
#77. I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
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#78. One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.
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#80. Everything changes and nothing stands still.
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#81. Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
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#82. Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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#83. God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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#84. 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.
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#85. The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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#86. A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
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#87. 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.
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#88. The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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#90. It is in changing that we find purpose.
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#91. Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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#92. The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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#93. If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
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#94. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
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#96. If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
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#97. 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.
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#98. There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
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#99. We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
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#100. The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -
Heraclitus
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