One thunderbolt strikes root through everything

— Heraclitus

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

— Heraclitus

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

— Heraclitus

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the cities walls.

— Heraclitus

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.

— Heraclitus

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

— Heraclitus

The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

— Heraclitus

The Eon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

— Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

— Heraclitus

The sun is new each day.

— Heraclitus