Quote #52
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
More from Heraclitus
- War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
- Where there is no strife there is decay: The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.
- Uncomprehending when they have heard, they are like the deaf. The saying describes them: though present they are absent.
- Wisdom is one thing - to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
- To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
- All men are deceived by the appearances of things, even Homer himself, who was the wisest man in Greece; for he was deceived by boys catchi…
- To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
- There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.