Greek philosopher, mystic,...
pre-Socrates era of Greece
only fragments of his writings survive--"you can't
step in the same river twice", etc...
Osho talks and book: The Hidden Harmony uses
sutras by Heraclitus
pre-Socrates era of Greece
only fragments of his writings survive--"you can't
step in the same river twice", etc...
Osho talks and book: The Hidden Harmony uses
sutras by Heraclitus
Heraclitus
c. 535-475 BCE
aka: Heraclitus of Ephesus, The Weeping
Philosopher, The Riddler, Heraclitus the Obscure...
Greek: Ἡράκλειτος
c. 535-475 BCE
aka: Heraclitus of Ephesus, The Weeping
Philosopher, The Riddler, Heraclitus the Obscure...
Greek: Ἡράκλειτος
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Heraclitus is really beautiful. Had he been born in India, or in the East, he would have been known as a buddha. But in Greek history, Greek philosophy, he was a stranger, an outsider. He is known in Greece not as an enlightened person but as Heraclitus the Obscure, Heraclitus the Dark, Heraclitus the Riddling. And the father of Greek philosophy and of Western thought, Aristotle, thought that he was no philosopher at all. Aristotle said, "At the most he is a poet," but that too was difficult for him to concede. So later on he said in other works, "There must be some defect in Heraclitus' character, something wrong biologically; that's why he talks in such obscure ways, and talks in paradoxes." Aristotle thought that he was a little eccentric, a little mad – and Aristotle dominates the whole West. If Heraclitus had been accepted, the whole history of the West would have been totally different. But he was not understood at all. He became more and more separate from the main current of Western thinking and the Western mind... --Osho The Hidden Harmony, ch. 1 |