Heraclitus Quotes About War

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  • God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

    "Fragments (Fragment 67)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.
  • War is the mother of everything.

  • Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

  • War is the father of all things.

    Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.245, Cambridge University Press
  • War is the father and king of all.

    Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.13, Philaletheians UK
  • We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

  • War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

  • One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

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Heraclitus

  • Born: 535 BC
  • Died: 475 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher