A collection of quotes and sayings by Heraclitus on warrior, books, change, Greek, art, thoughts, knowing, river, fire, twice, man, patience, change, result and character.
82 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Heraclitus, The Weeping Philosopher
Heraclitus was an eminent pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who was a native of the city of Ephesus which was then part of the Persian Empire. Not much is known about his early life and education except the fact that he was of distinguished parentage. He is considered a pioneer of wisdom and regarded himself as self-taught. He was popularly known as ‘The Obscure’. He was an independent thinker as he did not belong to any specific school of thought. He was an ardent believer of the changing nature of the universe and in the unity of opposites. We have made a corpus of some popular quotable quotes and thoughts by Heraclitus on winter, peace, boredom, control children, learning, understanding, harmony, happiness, ignorance, wine, endures, destiny, sacred, soul, universe, unchanging, professor, nature, violence, divinity, heart, wedding, justice, beautiful, couples, people, goals and more.
Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει.
(Everything changes, and no thing abides.)
Heraclitus
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
Heraclitus
Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?
Heraclitus
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
Heraclitus
The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman.
Heraclitus
The sun is the width of a human foot.
Heraclitus
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus
The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.
(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)
Heraclitus
Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
after sickness, food
in hunger, goodness
in the wake of evil, and at the end
of daylong labor sleep.
Heraclitus
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
Heraclitus
Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
Many who have learned
from Hesiod the countless names
of gods and monsters
never understand
that night and day are one
Heraclitus
Any day stands
equal to the rest.
Heraclitus
Dog bark at what they don't understand.
Heraclitus
It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.
Heraclitus
Tis not too late to seek a newer world
Heraclitus
Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within
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.
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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