Heraclitus Quotes

Σίβυλλα δὲ μαινομένῳ στόματι καθ' Ἡράκλειτον ἀγέλαστα καὶ ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ ἀμύριστα φθεγγομένη χιλίων ἐτῶν ἐξικνεῖται τῇ φονῇ διὰ τὸν θεόν

(And the Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her.)

Change is the only thing that endures

What is not yet known those
blinded by bad faith can never
learn.

Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.

What are men? Mortal gods.
What are gods? Immortal men.

# War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free. (G. T. W. Patrick, 1889)

Order was not made by god or man. It always was and is and shall be an ever-living fire, flaring up in regular measures and dying down in regular measures.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

From the strain
of binding opposites
comes harmony.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

War is the father of all and the king of all; it proves some people gods, and some people men; it makes some people slaves and some people free.

# The Cosmos is child's play: a child playing chess as King.

All things are produced by strife.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.