You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You can't step twice into the same river.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Character is fate. (Destiny)
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slave...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Nothing endures but change.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Big results require big ambitions.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS To do the same thing over and over is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to con...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protr...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS All is flux, nothing stays still
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Everything rests by changing.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your pr...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS There is nothing permanent except change.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Much learning does not teach understanding.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS A man's character is his guardian divinity.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all thi...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The road up and the road down is one and the same.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the co...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The way up and the way down are one and the same
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Character is destiny.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and diff...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Out of every 100 men, 10 shouldn't be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, an...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man; it forever was, is, and forever will...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Man is on earth as in an egg
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Man is not made for defeat
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You cannot step into the same river twice
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS People that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things ...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The people should fight for the law as for their city wall
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and want
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Nothing is, everything is becoming.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HERACLITUS Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HERACLITUS To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and ot...
HERACLITUS Big results require big ambitions.
HERACLITUS Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
HERACLITUS The way up and the way down are one and the same.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his fate.
HERACLITUS Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the rea...
HERACLITUS Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
HERACLITUS One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men ha...
HERACLITUS Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
HERACLITUS Time is a game played beautifully by children.
HERACLITUS It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his guardian divinity.
HERACLITUS The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your pr...
HERACLITUS Change alone is unchanging.
HERACLITUS Nothing endures but change.
HERACLITUS Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same...You cannot ste...
HERACLITUS Much learning does not teach understanding.
HERACLITUS No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
HERACLITUS Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
HERACLITUS If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search ...
HERACLITUS Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
HERACLITUS Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
HERACLITUS The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
HERACLITUS It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
HERACLITUS Nature is wont to hide herself.
HERACLITUS If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
HERACLITUS Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light...
HERACLITUS Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
HERACLITUS The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
HERACLITUS God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
HERACLITUS There is nothing permanent except change.
HERACLITUS You cannot step into the same river twice.
HERACLITUS Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his guardian divinity.
HERACLITUS It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys a...
HERACLITUS Character is destiny.
HERACLITUS Bigotry is the sacred disease.
HERACLITUS The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
HERACLITUS Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS The sun is new each day.
HERACLITUS If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or t...
HERACLITUS To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than ...
HERACLITUS Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protr...
HERACLITUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same...
HERACLITUS The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themse...
HERACLITUS I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek an...
HERACLITUS No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
HERACLITUS Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.
HERACLITUS Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
HERACLITUS Man's character is his fate.
HERACLITUS Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all thi...
HERACLITUS Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
HERACLITUS You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HERACLITUS The road up and the road down is one and the same.
HERACLITUS All is flux, nothing stays still.
HERACLITUS Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
HERACLITUS A man's character is his fate.
HERACLITUS Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all thing...
HERACLITUS Everything flows; nothing remains.
HERACLITUS Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.
HERACLITUS There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus.
HERACLITUS Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
HERACLITUS You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are constantly flowing on.
HERACLITUS Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light...
HERACLITUS Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
HERACLITUS To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
i...
HERACLITUS Greater dooms win greater destinies.
HERACLITUS If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and diffi...
HERACLITUS The road up and the road down is one and the same.
(ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ...
HERACLITUS Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?
HERACLITUS It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going...
HERACLITUS Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
HERACLITUS People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.
HERACLITUS Character is destiny
HERACLITUS Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
HERACLITUS Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
HERACLITUS Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, a...
HERACLITUS All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This princi...
HERACLITUS Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
HERACLITUS War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, other...
HERACLITUS Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.
HERACLITUS Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.
HERACLITUS Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.
HERACLITUS One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything
HERACLITUS Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.
HERACLITUS Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within
HERACLITUS Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
HERACLITUS Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best
HERACLITUS All is flux
HERACLITUS Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
aft...
HERACLITUS Many who have learned
from Hesiod the countless names
of gods and monsters
never unde...
HERACLITUS Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are b...
HERACLITUS Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
HERACLITUS The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.

(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)
HERACLITUS The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony nee...
HERACLITUS The sun is the width of a human foot.
HERACLITUS If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods...
HERACLITUS Everything changes and nothing stands still.
HERACLITUS Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
HERACLITUS The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
HERACLITUS The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign...
HERACLITUS We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
HERACLITUS The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
HERACLITUS The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
HERACLITUS One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through stri...
HERACLITUS A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to ou...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and i...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myse...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do no...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild b...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an en...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be t...
JOAN OF ARC In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.
CATHERINE OF SIENA One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
JOAN OF ARC It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the du...
JOAN OF ARC About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
JOAN OF ARC Act, and God will act.
JOAN OF ARC If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
JOAN OF ARC You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...
JOAN OF ARC Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
JOAN OF ARC Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
JOAN OF ARC It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH