Heraclitus
Greek philosopher, known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and for establishing the term Logos in Western philosophy as meaning both the source and fundamental order of the Cosmos.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
Logos is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
The road up and the road down is one and the same.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
A lifetime is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
Nothing endures but change.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
He who does not expect the unexpected will not find it, since it is trackless and unexplored.
It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
When is death not within ourselves?... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.
The people should fight for their law as if defending the city's wall.
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Nature is wont to hide herself.