Heraclitus

“A man's character is his fate.”

“The road up and the road down is one and the same.(ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή)—Fragment 60”

“All is flux”

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”

“Those who love wisdom must investigate many things”

“What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.”

“Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.”

“You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.”

“It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary, and all things happen because of strife and necessity.”

“Tis not too late to seek a newer world”

“The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.”

“Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.”

“Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.”

“Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.”

“The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)”

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.”

“Nothing endures but change.”

“Character is destiny”

“The poet was a foolwho wanted no conflictamong us, godsor people.Harmony needs low and high,as progeny needsman and woman.”

“What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.”

“τήν τε οἴησιν ἱερὰν νόσον ἔλεγε καὶ τὴν ὅρασιν ψεύδεσθαι(Thinking is a sacred disease, and sight is deceptive.)”

“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει.(Everything changes, and no thing abides.)”

“A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.”

“Nada é permanente, excepto a mudança.”

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”

“The sun is the width of a human foot.”

“The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign.The Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her.”

“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.”

“Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.”

“Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.”

“All are one”

“Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.”

“Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.”

“Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.”

“The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.”

“Silence, healing.”

“All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.”

“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”

“The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.”

“It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.”

“It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.”

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

“Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.”

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”

“It is in changing that we find purpose.”

“The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.”

“Man's character is his fate.”

“The sun is new each day.”

“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”