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#1

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo

2152 likes

#2

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: fragment-52, games, heraclitus, leisure, philosophy, play, time, wisdom

1601 likes

#3

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
― Heraclitus

659 likes

#4

“Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: heraclitus, philosophy, sleep, wisdom

487 likes

#5

“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.”
― Heraclitus

476 likes

#6

“To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: heraclitus, open-mindedness, philosophy, wisdom

263 likes

#7

“Nothing endures but change.”
― Heraclitus

tags: change, impermanence, mujō, time, 無常

287 likes

#8

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
― Heraclitus

244 likes

#9

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”
― Heraclitus

204 likes

#10

“How can you hide from what never goes away?”
― Heraclitus

tags: poignant

178 likes

#11

“Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: heraclitus, philosophy, wisdom

154 likes

#12

“Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.”
― Heraclitus

tags: behavior, integrity

152 likes

#13

“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”
― Heraclitus

154 likes

#14

“It is in changing that we find purpose.”
― Heraclitus

168 likes

#15

“Character is destiny”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: character, destiny, fate, fragment-121

130 likes

#16

“Nothing endures but change”
― Heraclitus

tags: change

12 likes

#17

“To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.”
― Heraclitus

15 likes

#18

“Character is destiny.”
― Heraclitus

15 likes

#19

“Everything changes and nothing stands still.”
― Heraclitus

tags: change, heraclitus

14 likes

#20

“there is nothing permanent except change--”
― Heraclitus

21 likes

#21

“Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: philosophy, self-search, soul

17 likes

#22

“γραφέων ὁδὸς εὐθεῖα καὶ σκολιὴ μία ἐστί, φησί, καὶ ἡ αὐτή

(The path of writing is crooked and straight)”
― Heraclitus

14 likes

#23

“Everything flows and nothing stays.”
― Heraclitus

tags: change, motto-in-life, moving-on-and-letting-go, progress, truth

16 likes

#24

“A man's character is his fate.”
― Heraclitus

22 likes

#25

“τήν τε οἴησιν ἱερὰν νόσον ἔλεγε καὶ τὴν ὅρασιν ψεύδεσθαι

(Thinking is a sacred disease, and sight is deceptive.)”
― Heraclitus

16 likes

#26

“Nature loves to hide.”
― Heraclitus

tags: philosophy-of-life

30 likes

#27

“Any day stands
equal to the rest.”
― Heraclitus

tags: cycles, now, present

19 likes

#28

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

23 likes

#29

“The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.”
― Heraclitus, Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments

101 likes

#30

“All is flux”
― Heraclitus, The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature with an Introduction Historical and Critical

tags: philosophy

23 likes

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