Heraclitus Quotes

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

You cannot step twice into the same river.

In life everything is continually in flux.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

All things are subject to decay and change.