336 Quotes by Heraclitus

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

The sun is new each day.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

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

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos men are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.