Tag: Heraclitus of Ephesus

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

All human laws are nourished by one divine law.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

The road up and the road down are one and the same.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

All is flux, nothing stays still.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

Eternity is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

You could not step twice into the same river.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)

Character is destiny.

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)