Heraclitus
16 quotations
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Change alone is unchanging.
Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
There is nothing permanent except change.
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Man's character is his fate.
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Character is our destiny.
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.