Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
HeraclitusThe 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.
HeraclitusOf all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
HeraclitusThere is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
HeraclitusThe majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
HeraclitusWe 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.
HeraclitusThe river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
HeraclitusCould you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
HeraclitusThose who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
HeraclitusUnless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
HeraclitusImmortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
HeraclitusHeraclitus 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.
HeraclitusTo 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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