Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

— 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.

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging.

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

Man's character is his fate.

— Heraclitus

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

— Heraclitus

Character is our destiny.

— Heraclitus

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

Much learning does not teach understanding.

— Heraclitus

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

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus