Heraclitus Quotes

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

#* Lucianus, Quomodo hist. conscrib. 2; Idem, Icaromen 8.

Τίς γὰρ αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρήν; δήμων ἀοιδοῖσι ἕπονται καὶ διδασκάλῳ χρέωνται ὁμίλῳ, οὐκ εἰδότες ὅτι πολλοὶ κακοὶ ὀλίγοι δὲ ἀγαθοί. αἱρεῦνται γὰρ ἓν ἀντία πάντων οἱ ἄριστοι, κλέος ἀέναον θνητῶν, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ κεκόρηνται ὅκωσπερ κτήνεα.

χαλεπώτερον ἡδονῇ μάχεσθαι ἢ θυμῷ

When they are born, they wish to live and to meet with their dooms - or rather to rest - and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn.

Into the same rivers we both step and do not step; we both are and are not.

# History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.

Under the comb
the tangle and the straight path
are the same.

Ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες.

(Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living out the other's death, dying out the other's life)

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

For souls it is death to become water, and for water death to become earth. Water comes into existence out of earth, and soul out of water.

Εάν δεν αναμένετε το απροσδόκητο, δεν θα το αναγνωρίσετε όταν φτάσει.

Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.

Dog bark at what they don't understand.

What allows us to be human is something daemonic.