Peace Quotes by Heraclitus

“All is war.”

— Heraclitus

War is the father of all things.

— Heraclitus

War is the father and king of all,

— Heraclitus

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

— Heraclitus

War is the mother of everything.

— Heraclitus

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

— Heraclitus

“From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony.”

— Heraclitus

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

— Heraclitus

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

— Heraclitus

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

— Heraclitus

“From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony. The harmony past knowing sounds more deeply than the known.”

— Heraclitus

“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs…

— Heraclitus

“We must realize that war is universal and strife is justice, and that all things come into the world and pass away…

— Heraclitus

Invisible harmony is better than visible.

— Heraclitus

“The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow.”

— Heraclitus

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

— Heraclitus

“Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.”

— Heraclitus

“It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.”

— Heraclitus

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony…

— Heraclitus