Monday, September 10, 2012

Heraclitus Quotes

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Heraclitus


A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus


Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus


It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus


Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus


There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus


Big results require big ambitions.
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


Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus


If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus


Character is destiny.
Heraclitus


You cannot step into the same river twice.
Heraclitus


To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
Heraclitus


Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus


You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus


Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
Heraclitus


Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
Heraclitus


Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus


The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Heraclitus


Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus


A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus


Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus


Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus


To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Heraclitus


Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Heraclitus


God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Heraclitus


The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus


Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus


I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus


Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus


The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus


Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus


No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Heraclitus


Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Heraclitus


The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus


The way up and the way down are one and the same.
Heraclitus


Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus

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