Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literatureOne cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on.Heraclitus★ 7.0
Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literatureIf cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own.Xenophanes★ 6.9
Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literatureEverything flows and nothing stays.HeraclitusPlato, Cratylus · 348 BC★ 3.8