Philosophy Quotes by Heraclitus

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

— Heraclitus

We do not step in the same river twice, for the waters have moved on and we too have changed.

— Heraclitus

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

— Heraclitus

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

— Heraclitus

A dry soul is wisest and best.

— Heraclitus

“Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.”

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

“Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.”

— Heraclitus

“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of…

— Heraclitus

“What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.”

— Heraclitus

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

— Heraclitus

“All is flux”

— Heraclitus

You cannot step twice into the same river.

— Heraclitus

“All are one”

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

— Heraclitus

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

— Heraclitus