Heraclitus

“Everything flows, nothing stays still.”

“Nothing is permanent but change.”

“It is in changing that things find purpose.”

“All things flow, nothing abides.”

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

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.”

“To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.”

“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.”

“Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.”

“All are one”

“People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.”

“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.”

“All is flux”

“Nothing endures but change.”

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”

“I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.”

“To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.”

“It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.”

“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”