Quotes by Heraclitus

"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish."

Heraclitus on adversity   

"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."

Heraclitus on detail   

"Much learning does not teach understanding."

Heraclitus on education
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"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."

Heraclitus on expectation
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"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."

Heraclitus on god   

"Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life."

Heraclitus on immortality
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"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe."

Heraclitus on sleep   

"Bigotry is the sacred disease."

Heraclitus on bigotry   

"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."

Heraclitus on bores and boredom   

"Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung."

Heraclitus on burial   

"Change alone is unchanging."

Heraclitus on change   

"Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed."

Heraclitus on change
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"There is nothing permanent except change."

Heraclitus on change   

"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on."

Heraclitus on change
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"Man's character is his fate."

Heraclitus on character
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"A man's character is his guardian divinity."

Heraclitus on character   

"Character is our destiny."

Heraclitus on character
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"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."

Heraclitus on anger