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

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

“Even a soul submerged in sleep”

“People ought to fight”

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

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

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

“Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.”

“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”

“Smartass Disciple: Master, do you really believe in the second chance?”