Heraclitus Quotes

#* Plutarch, de Iside 48, p. 370. Context, see frag. 43.

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.

Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.

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.

I have sought for myself.

Wisdom is the oneness
of mind that guides
and permeates all things.

One man is worth thousand if he is extraordinary

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

He who hears not me but the Logos will say: All is one.

Into the same rivers we step and do not step, we are and are not. (Heraclitus Homericus)

αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεσσεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη.

# See also: πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς

Ἓν τὸ σοφόν, ἐπίστασθαι γνώμην ᾗ κυβερνᾶται πάντα διὰ πάντων

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