Heraclitus Quotes

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

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

Everything contains its antithesis.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

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

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

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

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.