Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in approximately 535 BC in the ancient city of Ephesus, then a part of the Persian Empire. While little is known of his early years, Heraclitus rejected his privileged upbringing and lived isolated and lonely. He was often plagued by periods of depression, earning him the moniker the “Weeping Philosopher”. He is most well-known for his philosophy of change and flux and is attributed with writing the phrase “No man ever steps in the...
Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived a lonely life earning him the moniker of the «Weeping Philosopher.» His principal philosophy is embodied in the following statement «No man ever steps in the same river twice,» in other words man faces an ever-present change in the universe. He believed in the unity of opposites, stating that «the path up and down are one and the same.» According to Diogenes, Heraclitus worked on «a continuous treatise On Nature,» which «was...
