For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάντατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες (Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.)” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Yearning hurts, and what release may come of it feels much like death.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
We do not step in the same river twice, for the waters have moved on and we too have changed. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image