Heraclitus
There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.Collection: Relationship
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.Collection: Children
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.Collection: Men
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.Collection: Science
Nothing is constant except changeCollection: Constant
The only thing that is constant is change.Collection: Constant
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.Collection: Thinking
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.Collection: Inspirational
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.Collection: Inspirational
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a signCollection: Giving
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poetsCollection: Education
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.Collection: Wisdom
Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.Collection: People
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.Collection: Men
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.Collection: Wisdom
A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.Collection: Home
This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.Collection: Life
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.Collection: Change
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.Collection: Children
Life is a child moving counters in a game.Collection: Children
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Years
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Children
All things are in a state of flux.Collection: Change
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.Collection: Death
The only thing constant is changeCollection: Good Life
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.Collection: Fire
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.Collection: Rivers
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.Collection: Men
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.Collection: Common
To God all things are beautiful and good and just.Collection: Beautiful
If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].Collection: Soul
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'Collection: Decay
War is the mother of everything.Collection: Mother
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Opposites
You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.Collection: Soul
Those who love wisdom must investigate many thingsCollection: Love Wisdom
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, they [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.Collection: Men
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.Collection: Knowledge
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.Collection: Habit
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.Collection: Book
Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.Collection: Political
There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]Collection: Gratitude
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.Collection: Death