Heraclitus Quotes

A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus

Character, Divinity, Guardian

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

Harmony, Opposition, Brings

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

Best, Goal, Themselves

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Heraclitus

Good, God, Beautiful

Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus

Disease, Sacred

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Heraclitus

Peace, God, War

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus

Eyes, Ears, Exact

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

Fit, Thrown, Corpses

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

Made, Poets, Greek

Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus

Nature, Hide, Herself

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Heraclitus

Danger, Prosperity, Encounter

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus

Change, Nothing, Endures

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: 544 BC

Died: 483 BC

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