Philosophy Quote by Heraclitus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“All is flux; nothing stays still.”

“Stupidity is doomed,”

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.”

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

“It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.”

“Every time you help someone to achieve success, you become more successful. Always help to lift the burdens of others.”

“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!”

“I’d like to be the moon in your sky.”

“I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.”

“In this lifetime”