Quotes Heraclitus ancient wisdom

It is in changing that we find purpose. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. Time is a game played beautifully by children. The only thing that is constant is change. Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny. It is the light that guides your way. To be even-minded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature. Much learning does not teach understanding. Man's character is his fate. We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. How can you hide from what never goes away? Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things. Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. The unlike is joined together and from differences results the most beautiful harmony. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. The sun is new each day. People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city's walls. The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds. All things come into being by conflict of opposites. To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting. Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what? 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. Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. Dogs bark at what they don't understand. The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us gods or people. Harmony needs low and high as progeny needs man and woman. Everything flows, nothing stands still. Applicants for wisdom. Do what I have done. Inquire within. Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions. Realize that war is common and justice is strife and that all things come into being and pass away through strife. To God all things are fair and good and right. But men hold some things wrong and some things right. You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same. It is necessary to take what is common as our guide. However, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom. Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known. To fight with desire is hard. Whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul. The cosmos works by harmony of tensions. Like leer and bow, good and evil are one. Out of every 100 men, 10 shouldn't even be there. 80 are just targets. 9 are the real fighters and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one. One is a warrior and he will bring the others back. If there are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods. War is the father of all and the king of all. It proves some people gods and some people men. It makes some people slaves and some people free. Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed. Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled. What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.