535-475 BC, Greek Philosopher
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus – [Character]
Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus – [Bigotry]
Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus – [Change]
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus – [Character]
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Heraclitus – [Burial]
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
Heraclitus – [Sleep]
Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Heraclitus – [Change]
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Heraclitus – [God]
If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
Heraclitus – [Expectation]
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
Heraclitus – [Immortality]
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus – [Adversity]
Man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus – [Character]
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Heraclitus – [Detail]
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus – [Education]
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Heraclitus – [Danger]
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus – [Change]
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 – [Bores and Boredom]
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus – [Change]