336 Quotes by Heraclitus

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.