Heraclitus of Ephesus Quotes

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”

“You cannot step into the same river twice”

“During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of boiling oil and subsequently banished to the island of Patmos in the Aegean sea. It was there he wrote his Apocalypse. It was only after the death of Domitian, in A.D. 96, that he returned to Ephesus, where he was still living during the reign of the Emperor Trajan (A.D. 98-117). He became so old and frail that he could no longer walk and had to be carried to meetings and services. All he could manage to say was, "My little children, love one another." He repeated this over and over.”

“All is flux”

“If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.”

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

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

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

“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 speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.”