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

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

- Heraclitus

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

- Heraclitus

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

- Heraclitus

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

- Heraclitus

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

- Heraclitus

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

- Heraclitus

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

- Heraclitus

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

- 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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

- Heraclitus

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

- Heraclitus

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

- Heraclitus

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

- Heraclitus

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

- Heraclitus

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

- Heraclitus

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

- Heraclitus

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

- Heraclitus