Heraclitus Quotes

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.

All entities move and nothing remains still.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

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

All is flux; nothing stays still.

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

Without contraries there is no progression.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

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

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Change alone is unchanging.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

All Things Change (Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo)

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.