It's Greek to Me

Knowledge is not intelligence.
— Herakleitos, Herakleitos and Diogenes, "Herakleitos," #6, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 12.

Change alone is unchanging.
— Herakleitos, Ibid., #23, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 15.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
— Herakleitos, Ibid., #24, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 15.

The most beautiful order of the world is still a random gathering of things insignificant in themselves.
— Herakleitos, Ibid., #40, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 18.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
— Diogenes, Herakleitos and Diogenes, "Diogenes," #10, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 40.

A. I am Alexander the Great.
B. I am Diogenes, the dog.
A. The dog?
B. I muzzle the kind, bark at the greedy, and bite louts.
A. What can I do for you?
B. Stand out of my light.
— Diogenes, Ibid., "Diogenes," #30, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 44.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
— Diogenes, Ibid., "Diogenes," #35, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 44.

Reason or a halter.
— Diogenes, Ibid., "Diogenes," #45, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 46.

Beg a cup of wine from Plato and he will send you a whole jar. He does not give as he was asked, nor answer as he is questioned.
— Diogenes, Ibid., "Diogenes," #48, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 47.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but in his face.
— Diogenes, Ibid., "Diogenes," #56, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 48.

Beggars get handouts before philosophers because people have some idea of what it's like to be blind and lame.
— Diogenes, Ibid., "Diogenes," #93, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 54.

Give up philosophy because I'm an old man? It's at the end of a race that you break into a burst of speed.
— Diogenes, Ibid., "Diogenes," #124, Guy Davenport (tr.), p. 59.