Word: heraclitus
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...based on certain philosophical convictions. One is a stern rejection of an axiom of classical logic, the principle of identity-that A is A, or a rose is a rose. In fact, argued Korzybski, the basic principle of life is not identity but, as the elliptical pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus put it, that all is change. Time and movement are inexorable, and in the fraction of a second that a rose is described it has already begun to alter...
...After weeks of listening, learning and prodding, the new Under Secretary last week catalogued his initial impressions before the Foreign Service officers who run what Ball fondly called "the fudge factory." After a quote-heavy speech, with references ranging all the way from Lyndon Johnson and Oliver Cromwell to Heraclitus and Anatole France (commenting on Kant), Katzenbach concluded: "Can I urge each and every one of you that you have got political problems at home and that you should be as shrewd observers and as concerned about politics here in the United States-about what public opinion is and about...
...should read some Heraclitus some time. Anyhow, if that button had popped off instead of my asking...
ARISTOS, by John Fowles. The author of The Collector, a brilliant demonic novel, turns to philosophy. His mentor is ancient Greek Philosopher Heraclitus who also wrote of aristos (the excellent in life), and Fowles shares his love of paradox, his clear-eyed contemplation and, particularly, his eloquence...
Fowles's acknowledged mentor is the 6th century B.C. Greek thinker Heraclitus, whose extant work consists only of brief fragments declaring cryptically that the universe is in flux, that life is a ceaseless struggle of opposites: fire and water, earth and spirit, love and hate. Fowles shares Heraclitus' reverence for life, his clear-eyed contemplation of the tragic, his love of paradox; and he is even more eloquent...