HERACLITUS

FRAGMENTS (Circa 500 B.C.) 

Heraclitus | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• If happiness consisted in the pleasures of the body, we should call oxen happy whenever they come across bitter vetch to eat.

• The sun is new everyday.

• The one is made up of all things, and all things of the one.

• How can one hide from that which never sets?

• If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it.

• Knowing not how to listen, they do not know how to speak.

• Those who seek gold dig up much earth and find little.

• Men that love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.

• The learning of many things does not teach understanding.

• The things that can be seen, heard and learned are what I prize the most.

• The way up and the way down is one in the same.

• It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things.

• The wisest man, in contrast to God, appears as an ape in beauty and wisdom and all things.

• It is hard to fight one’s heart’s desire. Whatever it wishes to get it purchases at the cost of the soul.

• The fool is fluttered at every word.

• You can not step in the same river twice. For you and the river are constantly changing.

• It is best to hide folly.

• Dogs bark at everyone they do not recognize.

• I dived into myself.

• Recognizing ones self and being of sound mind is for all beings.

• A mans character is his fate.

• Nature love to hide.

• Even a barley-drink separates if it is not stirred.