Heraclitus Quotes

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  • This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

    "Fragments (Fragment 30)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.
  • Life is a child moving counters in a game.

  • 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.

    "Fragments (Fragment 30)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.
  • Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

    Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.69, Penguin
  • The path up and down is one and the same.

    c.500 BC Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds) The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6.
  • Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

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

  • The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

  • Character is fate. (Destiny).

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 190-92, In Mullach's Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum, 1922.
  • Nature is wont to hide herself.

    "Fragments (Fragment 123)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.
  • You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

  • It is wise to agree that all things are one.

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    Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.65, Cambridge University Press
  • Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

  • All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

  • For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

  • Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

  • The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

  • The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

    Collected in Charles H Kahn The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (1979).
  • There is nothing permanent except change.

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

  • Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

  • How can you hide from what never goes away?

  • 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.

  • If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

  • The way up and the way down are one and the same.

    "Fragments (Fragment 60)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.
  • Things keep their secrets.

    Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.8, Penguin
  • A man's character is his fate.

    On the Universe fragment 121
  • The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

  • Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

    "Heraclitus". Book by Philip Wheelwright, 1959.
  • Greater dooms win greater destinies.

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    Heraclitus

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