Following is our list of the most famous heraclitus quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational heraclitus quotes. Hopefully, these heraclitus quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your heraclitus knowledge!
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. — Heraclitus
It is not possible to step twice into the same river — Greek Proverbs
Everything changes, nothing remains without change. — Buddha
There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change. — Ovid
Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. — Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent except change. — Heraclitus
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. — Asger Jorn
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world. — Ernst Haeckel
Observe constantly that all things take place by change. — Marcus Aurelius
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. — Confucius
When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao. — Lao Tzu
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. — Marcus Aurelius
Short Heraclitus Quotes
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity. — Plutarch
[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad. — Osho
I have been in love with the thought of Heraclitus. — Osho
[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus]. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity." — Plutarch
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real. — Philip K. Dick
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward. — Plutarch
Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about). — Dorothy L. Sayers
At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. — Nicolas Chamfort
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed. — William Johnson Cory
Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge. — Diogenes Laertius
Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does. — Plutarch
Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control. — Carl Jung
Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river. — Heraclitus
Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them. — Callimachus
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept. — Horace Walpole
How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus — Elizabeth Wurtzel
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia. — Guy Davenport
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles. — Saul Bellow
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