Heraclitus Quotes

Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.

The road up and the road down is one and the same

En aquello que los hombres toman por misterios sagrados se inician impíamente

γραφέων ὁδὸς εὐθεῖα καὶ σκολιὴ μία ἐστί, φησί, καὶ ἡ αὐτή

(The path of writing is crooked and straight)

We never step in the same river twice.

One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.

Stupidity is better
kept a secret
than displayed.

Of Every One-Hundred Men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters... We are lucky to have them... They make the battle. Ah but the One, One of them is a Warrior... and He will bring the others back.

Ἓν τὸ σοφόν, ἐπίστασθαι γνώμην ᾗ κυβερνᾶται πάντα διὰ πάντων

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

Nothing endures but change

The waking have one world
in common. Sleepers
meanwhile turn aside, each
into a darkness of his own.

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

ταὐτό τ' ἔνι ζῶν καὶ τεθνηκὸς καὶ [τὸ] ἐγρηγορὸς καὶ καθεῦδον καὶ νέον καὶ γηραιόν

Much learning does not teach understanding.

πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει