Heraclitus

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

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

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

The only constant in life is change

I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

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

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Even a soul submerged in sleep _x000D_ is hard at work and helps _x000D_ make something of the world.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.