Heraclitus Quotes

The bow (βιός) is called life (βίος) but its work is death.

Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living the others' death, being dead in the others' life.

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

War, as father
of all things, and king,
names few
to serve as gods,
and of the rest makes
these men slaves,
those free.

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

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.

# See also: πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς

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 waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.

(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Τα παντα ρει

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things