Heraclitus Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.…
— Carl Sagan
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught…
— Philip K. Dick
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a…
— Horace Walpole
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Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . .…
— Callimachus
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They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.
— William Johnson Cory
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At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make…
— Saul Bellow
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When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his…
— Guy Davenport
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How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You…
— Dale Carnegie
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Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations. For…
— Jorge Luis Borges
Who Wrote These Heraclitus Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Heraclitus Quotes as follows: