336 Quotes by Heraclitus

Learning many things does not teach understanding.

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.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.

The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random.

We must therefore be guided by what is common to all. The Logos is common to all, yet the multitude lives as if each had his own intelligence.

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

War is the father of all and the king of all; it proves some people gods, and some people men; it makes some people slaves and some people free.

The sun is the width of a human foot.

Although the Word is common to all, many live as if they had a private understanding of their own.