Heraclitus Quotes

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

You cannot go into the same water twice.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

You cannot step twice into the same river.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

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

All things flow, nothing abides.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

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.

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.

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

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

There is nothing so stable as change.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

I just understand that life is a constant change and a constant evolution.

Life is constantly changing.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.