Heraclitus Quotes

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

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

There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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

Stability is not the way of the world.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Everything changes.

There is nothing under the sun that does not change.

Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.

What's good for you one day will not necessarily still be good for you the day after.