“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“We must realize that war is universal and strife is justice, and that all things come into the world and pass away… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“War, as father of all things, and king, names few to serve as gods, and of the rest makes these men slaves,… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity. — 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