Heraclitus Quotes

535-475 BC, Greek Philosopher
quotes
18
topics
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“Character is our destiny.”
Character
“Change alone is unchanging.”
Change
“Man's character is his fate.”
Character
“Bigotry is the sacred disease.”
Bigotry
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
Change
“A man's character is his guardian divinity.”
Character
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
Education
“Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.”
Burial
“No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.”
Danger
“It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.”
Adversity
“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
God
“Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.”
Sleep
“Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
Change
“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.”
Detail
“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.”
Change
“Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.”
Immortality
“If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.”
Expectation
“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.”
Bores and Boredom