Heraclitus's most famous sayings
The top 3 according to 37 votes from people: You cannot step into the same river twice. · Nature loves to hide. · Dogs bark at those they do not know.. (Updated Nov 3, 2020.)
'You cannot step into the same river twice', 'War is the father of all things', 'Nature loves to hide': the most quoted fragments of Heraclitus of Ephesus, with their Diels-Kranz number.
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Top 15
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You cannot step into the same river twice.
Fragment B91, preserved by Plutarch.
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Nature loves to hide.
Fragment B123.
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Dogs bark at those they do not know.
Fragment B97.
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4
Everything flows.
Attributed: 'panta rhei' is in no fragment; it sums up his thought as reported by Plato and Simplicius.
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The way up and the way down are one and the same.
Fragment B60.
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Those who seek gold dig up much earth and find little.
Fragment B22.
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Character is a man's fate.
Fragment B119 ('ethos anthropoi daimon').
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The hidden harmony is better than the visible one.
Fragment B54.
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The sun is new each day.
Fragment B6.
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The waking share one common world; the sleeping each turn away to a world of their own.
Fragment B89.
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
Fragment B40, which goes on: 'otherwise it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras'.
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You would not find the limits of the soul even if you travelled every road, so deep is its logos.
Fragment B45.
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War is the father of all things and king of all.
Fragment B53.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
Fragment B101a.
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15
Illness makes health pleasant; hunger, fullness; weariness, rest.
Fragment B111.
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