Heraclitus Quotes

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

Without contraries there is no progression.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

Everything contains its antithesis.

There's no hero without a villain.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

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

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.