Heraclitus Quotes

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

It is wise to agree that all things are one.

Things keep their secrets.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Not I but the world says it: All is one.

What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

Life is a child moving counters in a game.