Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesuswas a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the apparently riddled and allegedly paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
change
There is nothing peranent except change.
science reality fire
There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
kings father war
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
thinking doe unexpected
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
men all-things fairs
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
opposites conflict all-things
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
rivers water flow
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
rivers steps
You can never step in the same river twice.
young-and-old young awake
When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.
rivers feet water
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
ocean believe land
I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before
cosmos awake
For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.
beautiful hands people
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
logos
He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.