Heraclitus Quotes

ἄνθρωπος ἐν εὐφρόνῃ φάος ἅπτεται ἑαυτῷ [ἀποθανὼν] ἀποσβεσθεὶς

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

I went in search of myself.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

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

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Stupidity is better
kept a secret
than displayed.

Whoever cannot seek
the unforseen, sees nothing
for the known way
is an impasse.

It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things.

τὰ δὲ πάντα οἰακίζει Κεραυνός

αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεσσεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη.

Greater fates gain greater rewards

The road up and the road down is one and the same.
(ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή) — Fragment 60

Speaking with sense we must fortify ourselves in the common sense of all, as a city is fortified by its law, and even more forcefully. For all human laws are nourished by the one divine law. For it prevails as far as it will and suffices for all and is superabundant.

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

Men verdooft zich met prietpraat en gebruikt ogen en oren niet.