Quote

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

Heraclitus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Heraclitus
Philosopher
Writer
Efes
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Becoming
Everything
Nothing

More quotes by Heraclitus

Image
Learning many things does not teach understanding
Heraclitus
Image
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
Heraclitus
Image
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus
Image
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
Heraclitus
Image
The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.
Heraclitus
Image
Knowledge is not intelligence.
Heraclitus
Image
The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.
Heraclitus
Image
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
Heraclitus
Image
Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.
Heraclitus
Image
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
Heraclitus
Image
Everything flows and nothing abides everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.
Heraclitus
Image
Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
Heraclitus
Image
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
Heraclitus
Image
The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
Heraclitus
Image
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
Heraclitus
Image
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
Heraclitus
Image
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire
Heraclitus
Image
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.
Heraclitus
Image
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
Image
For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former.
Heraclitus