Heraclitus Quotes

“I went in search of myself.”

— Heraclitus

I have been in love with the thought of Heraclitus.

— Rajneesh

“You cannot step twice in the same river--Heraclitus”

— Jessica B. Harris

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.”

— Heraclitus

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.”

— Heraclitus

“Everything flows—that’s why I’m paying sky-high water bills.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“The road up and the road down are one and the same." Heraclitus”

— H.i.m

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everything flows and water bills are getting higher and higher.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts…

— Plutarch

“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s…

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and…

— Heraclitus

“If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better…

— Annie Dillard

“You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from…

— Heraclitus of Ephesus

“The life of the body is sustained by the breath which inhaled the dry vapors kindred fire. At night, when the sun…

— G.T.W. Patrick

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For Milesian philosophers Thales (c. 626/623—c. 548/545 BC), Anaximander (c. 610—c. 546 BC), and Anaximenes (c. 586/585—c. 526/525 BC) there was an ultimate principle they called arche. For…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“It seems as if historicist ideas easily become prominent in times of great social change. They appeared when Greek tribal life broke…

— Karl Popper

“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which…

— Aristotle

“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει (All is flux, and nothing abides)”

— Heraclitus

“Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.”

— Anike Kirsten

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.”

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus