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Heraclitus of Ephesus

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Biography - Heraclitus of Ephesus:

Ancient Greek, pre-Socratic, Ionian philosopher was born at Ephesus.
Born: -544 - Died: -480
Period:
5th century BC
6th century BC
Place of birth: Turkey
Turkey

You could not step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus of Ephesus


You could not step twice into the same river.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
On ne peut pas descendre deux fois dans le même fleuve.
Héraclite d'Éphèse

German
Man kann nicht zweimal in denselben Fluss steigen.
Heraklit von Ephesos



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Time itself flows on in constant motion, just like a river. For neither the river nor the swift hour can stop its course; but, as wave is pushed on by wave, and as each wave is both impelled by that behind and itself impels the wave in front, so time both flees and follows and is ever new. For that which once existed is no more, and that which was not has come to be; and so the whole round of motion is gone through again.
Publius Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

With each heavy storm of rain
⁠Change comes o'er thy valley fair;
Once, alas! but not again
⁠Can the same stream hold thee e'er.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Dauer im Wechsel

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius

but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments

Formation, transformation, The eternal mind's eternal recreation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust, Part Two

Some things are hastening to be, others to have come and gone, and a part of what is coming into being is already extinct.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations



Quotes for: change


Quotes

Quotes about change:


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety / 





Change alone is the constant.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life / 





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy / 





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht / 





To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution / 






All about change...




Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon - Novum organum / 





Time is a great master; it regulates things well.
Pierre Corneille - Sertorius / 





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 





Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions / 






All about time...




Quotes

Heraclitus of Ephesus also said...


The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments / 





The way up and down is one and the same.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





From things that differ comes the most beautiful harmony.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





Education is another sun to those who are educated.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





I went in search of myself.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 







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