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HERACLITUS; THE FIRST OF THE HIGHLY QUOTABLES

Among Heraclitus’ sayings is that a man’s character is his destiny. This perceptive insight was to be seconded by Sigmund Freud more than two thousand years later.
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Nothing in this world of ours just permanently is. Everything is changing all the time. Things come into existence in their different ways, and are never the same for two moments together so long as they exist, until eventually they go out of existence again. We ourselves are like this. Everything in the universe is like it -- perhaps the universe itself is like it. What we think of as “things” are not actually stable objects at all, they are in perpetual transition. Heraclitus likened them to flames in this respect, flames look as if they are objects, but they are not so much objects as processes. This is a profound idea. But it is also disconcerting. Human beings continued to happen throughout the history of philosophy. It does not develop in a straight line, but rather in a two-steps-forward-followed-by-one-step-back sort of way. If it should happen that we ourselves are living in a one-step-back-period, we have especially much to learn from the past. ` Page14

”EVERYTHING IS FLUX” Heraclitus

We are now used to the idea that mathematics plays an indispensible role in our understanding of the universe. The fact that the cosmos at every level, from the outermost galaxies down to the interior of the individual atom, is saturated with structure of a kind that is expressible in mathematical terms is to familiar to us that it Is in danger of appearing obvious, but in truth it is not obvious at all, it is utterly astonishing. It is what has led so many of the greatest scientists of all, such as Einstein, to believe that there must be some sort of intelligence behind the universe, if not necessarily a God in the conventional Judeo-Christian sense. The very first of the whole universe in terms of mathematics was Pythagoras, and he also was led by it into some sort of mysticism. ~ Page 16

THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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