Quotations From HERACLITUS

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• 21.

  One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

  Heraclitus (c. 535-475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 22B80. Heraclitus, one of the two or three most influential philosophers before Socrates, was known as "the riddler" or "the obscure."
  
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• 22.

  History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

  Heraclitus (c. 535-475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Herakleitos and Diogenes, pt. 1, fragment 24, trans. by Guy Davenport (1976).
  
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• 23.

  A man's character is his fate.

  Heraclitus (c. 535-c. 475 BC), Greek philosopher. On The Universe, fragment 121, trans. by W.H.S. Jones.
  
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• 24.

  Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

  Heraclitus (c. 535-c. 475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. The Cosmic Fragments, no. 90 (c. 480 B.C.).
• 25.

  Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

  Heraclitus (c. 535-475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 22B35. Heraclitus, one of the two or three most influential philosophers before Socrates, was known as "the riddler" or "the obscure."