Quotes by Heraclitus

• 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.
• The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
• Much learning does not teach understanding.
• No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
• Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
• Nothing endures but change.
• Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
• The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
• The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
• The sun is new each day.
• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
• There is nothing permanent except change.
• Nature is wont to hide herself.
• To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
• You cannot step into the same river twice.
• You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
• The way up and the way down are one and the same.
• Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
• No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
• Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
• A man's character is his fate.
• A man's character is his guardian divinity.
• Big results require big ambitions.
• Character is destiny.
• Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
• Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
• Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
• Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
• God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
• 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.
• Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
• I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
• If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
• Change alone is unchanging.