…This is a sort of paradoxical saying uh, the river doesn't flow it's sort of it's. It's in a way it's like Heraclitus: you never step into the same river. Twice. There's a very close parallel between all the thinking of Heraclitus and Taoist Philosophy,…

…way it's like Heraclitus: you never step into the same river. Twice. There's a very close parallel between all the thinking of Heraclitus and Taoist Philosophy, the yang and the yin, if you really want to go. Heraclitus is the most original thinker in…

…parallel between all the thinking of Heraclitus and Taoist Philosophy, the yang and the yin, if you really want to go. Heraclitus is the most original thinker in western thought and uh Philip Wheelwright, in the last few years published an excellent…

…thought and uh Philip Wheelwright, in the last few years published an excellent translation of what remains of the fragments of Heraclitus Philosophy. If the west had founded itself on Heraclitus rather than aristotle, we'd have been a lot better off. Most…

…years published an excellent translation of what remains of the fragments of Heraclitus Philosophy. If the west had founded itself on Heraclitus rather than aristotle, we'd have been a lot better off. Most ingenious man. Well anyway, uh this this feeling of…

…is falling, it's falling apart. That's what the ancients said when all is transient, pantaché, all flows, in the words of Heraclitus and you can't cling to anything, it's like grabbing at smoke with a non existent hand. That's all that clinging will…