Heraclitus

How To Use Heraclitus In A Sentence

• The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famous for saying you cannot stand in the same river twice; La Rochefoucauld perfected this epigrammatic style in the 17th century in his Maximes.
• Who would expect a quick flame from hydropical Heraclitus? Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
• There is no tedious sniping at current beliefs (apart from a rather funny bit towards the end about why Jupiter does not hurl thunderbolts; and he has a go also at the beliefs of Heraclitus and Empedocles about elements), just an explanation in detail of the philosophy of Epicurus and how that helps us understand the way the world around us works. February Books 6) Cat's Cradle: Warhead, by Andrew Cartmel
• What is known is that Heraclitus mentions him as a contemporary and critic of Pythagoras, and we can thus date him as living roughly at around the same time.
• Some being of the opinion of Thales, that water was the original of all things, thought it most equal103 to submit unto the principle of putrefaction, and conclude in a moist relentment. 104 Others conceived it most natural to end in fire, as due unto the master principle in the composition, according to the doctrine of Heraclitus; and therefore heaped up large piles, more actively to waft them toward that element, whereby they also declined a visible degeneration into worms, and left a lasting parcel of their composition. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
• Heraclitus was a dialectician, while Zeno was a metaphysical relativist.
• I say the quadruple or the centuple or much more manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact; Orpheus, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Plato, Plutarch, Essays — Second Series
• There is disagreement about exactly what Heraclitus meant by using the term logos, but it is clear from Presocratic Philosophy
• Heraclitus stresses the inductive rather than the deductive method of grasping the world, a world that is rationally structured, if we can but discern its shape.
• Nor yet will the sun shine upon the earth, nor the stars send down any good influence, because the terrestrial globe hath desisted from sending up their wonted nourishment by vapours and exhalations, wherewith Heraclitus said, the Stoics proved, Cicero maintained, they were cherished and alimented. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel