An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Heraclitus taught that “everything flows on like a river” and that the world is made from fire. His writing was so dark that Socrates said his book needed an expert diver to get to the bottom of it.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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