Heraclitus (6-5 century BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. Little is known of Heraclitus’s life. He wrote a single work, only fragments of which have survived. [Українська] [Русский]
Heraclitus Quotes
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
—Heraclitus
Man’s character is his fate.
—Heraclitus
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
—Heraclitus
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
—Heraclitus
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
—Heraclitus
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
—Heraclitus
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
—Heraclitus
Dogs bark at what they don’t understand.
—Heraclitus
Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
—Heraclitus
The sun is the width of a human foot.
—Heraclitus
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
—Heraclitus
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
—Heraclitus
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
—Heraclitus
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
—Heraclitus
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
—Heraclitus
Silence, healing.
—Heraclitus
The only thing that is constant is change.
—Heraclitus
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle.
—Heraclitus
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
—Heraclitus
To be even minded is the greatest virtue.
—Heraclitus
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
—Heraclitus
Big results require big ambitions.
—Heraclitus
Nothing endures but change.
—Heraclitus
The sun is new each day.
—Heraclitus
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
—Heraclitus
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
—Heraclitus
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
—Heraclitus
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
—Heraclitus
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
—Heraclitus
It is in changing that we find purpose.
—Heraclitus