Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesuswas a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the apparently riddled and allegedly paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the needless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
How can you hide from what never goes away?
world common share
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
children moving games
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
thinking sight sacred
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
life fire be-kind
It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
things-change stills
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
common ifs
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
children kingdoms eternity
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
change
There is nothing peranent except change.
science reality fire
There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
kings father war
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
thinking doe unexpected
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
men all-things fairs
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
opposites conflict all-things
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.