Heraclitus Quotes

#* Proclus in Tim. 54 A (comp. 24 B).

συνάψιες ὅλα καὶ οὐχ ὅλα, συμφερόμενον διαφερόμενον, συνᾷδον διᾷδον, καὶ ἐκ πάντων ἓν καὶ ἐξ ἑνὸς πάντα.

Many fail to grasp what they have seen,
and cannot judge what they have learned,
although they tell themselves they know.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

Si no hubiera un constante juego entre los contrastes, el mundo dejaría de existir

ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν ἐμϐαίνουσιν, ἕτερα καὶ ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ.

Ἓν τὸ σοφόν, ἐπίστασθαι γνώμην ᾗ κυβερνᾶται πάντα διὰ πάντων

(One is wisdom: to know the thought whereby all is steered by all)

τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν

A fool is excited by every word.

No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ

Dogs bark at what they cannot understand.

Everything flows, nothing remains

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

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