336 Quotes by Heraclitus

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

The only thing permanent is change.

Who will hide from the fire that does not set?

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.