Philosophy on change

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice.”

“The only constant in life is change.”

“The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.”

“Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.”

“The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.”

“And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.”

“All human laws are nourished by one divine law.”

“The identity ...as consisting in difference is simply that of the primary substance in all its manifestations.”

“This theory is usually summed up... All things are flowing... though... it cannot be proved that this is a quotation from Herakleitos.”

“Aristotle says the same... All things are in motion, nothing steadfastly is.”

“The Milesians held a similar view. The flux of Herakleitos was at most more unceasing and universal.”

“It is much easier to find fragments which are on the face of them inconsistent with a general conflagration.”

“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception. (Hays translation)”

“You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.”