Heraclitus Quotes

Latent structure is master of obvious structure

Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

Although the Law of Reason is common, the majority of people live as though they had an understanding of their own.

ἀμαθίην κρύπτειν ἄμεινον

Time is a child playing dice; the Kingly power is a child's.

Hungry livestock
though in sight of pasture
need the prod

Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.

How can you hide from what never goes away ?

Es difícil luchar contra el ánimo de uno, pues aquello que se desea le cuesta a uno el alma

Nada é permanente, excepto a mudança.

For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all — immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

Everything is temporary

A fool is excited by every word.

χαλεπώτερον ἡδονῇ μάχεσθαι ἢ θυμῷ