Heraclitus
It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.Collection: Ignorance
For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."Collection: Young
Things keep their secrets.Collection: Secret
The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.Collection: Men
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.Collection: Life
Everything changes and nothing stands still.Collection: Things Change
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.Collection: Men
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.Collection: Couple
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.Collection: Sleep
Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.Collection: Path
For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.Collection: Cosmos
All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.Collection: Inspirational
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.Collection: Wisdom
The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.Collection: Powerful
The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.Collection: Fire
It is wise to agree that all things are one.Collection: Wise
There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.Collection: Men
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.Collection: Blow
Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.Collection: Change
The results are in great need greater ambition.Collection: Ambition
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.Collection: Science
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexploredCollection: Doe
Greater dooms win greater destinies.Collection: Adversity
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.Collection: Thinking
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.Collection: Eye
Man is on earth as in an egg.Collection: Men
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.Collection: Inspirational
It is in changing that things find purpose.Collection: Inspirational
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.Collection: Religion
The only constant in life is changeCollection: Life Is
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.Collection: Revenge
A man's character is his fate.Collection: Life
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.Collection: Life
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.Collection: Work
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.Collection: Eye
The fairest harmony springs from discord.Collection: Spring
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.Collection: Lying
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.Collection: Teacher
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.Collection: Cutting
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.Collection: War
You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.Collection: Soul
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.Collection: Philosophy
Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.Collection: Knowing
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.Collection: Unexpected
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.Collection: Beautiful
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.Collection: Men
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.Collection: Men