Heraclitus

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Heraclitus

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Heraclitus

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

Heraclitus

The road up and the road down is one and the same.

Heraclitus

The sun is new each day.

Heraclitus

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus