Heraclitus, Fragments Quotes

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

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

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

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

One thunderbolt strikesroot through everything

Character is destiny

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.

Give me one manfrom among ten thousandif he is the best

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within