336 Quotes by Heraclitus

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.

The road up and the road down is one and the same

Under the combthe tangle and the straight pathare the same.

The living, though they yearnfor consummation of their fate,need rest, and in their turn leavechildren to fulfil their doom.

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

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

Everything changes and nothing stands still.