Word: heraclitean
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...Fragments speak in an eerily contemporary voice. Heraclitus anticipated Einstein's theory that energy is the essence of matter: "All things change to fire,/and fire exhausted/falls back into things." The metaphor of Heraclitean fire posits an absolutely unstable world, in constant flux, consuming and creating, the alternation and reconciliation of day and night, waking and sleeping, life and death, wet and dry, good and evil. "What was cold soon warms,/and warmth soon cools./So moisture dries,/and dry things drown." And "The earth is melted/into the sea/by that same reckoning/whereby the sea/ sinks into the earth...
...Fragments speak in an eerily contemporary voice. Heraclitus anticipated Einstein in the realization that energy is the essence of matter: "All things change to fire,/ and fire exhausted/ falls back into things." The metaphor of Heraclitean fire posited an absolutely unstable world, in constant flux, consuming and creating, the alternation and reconciliation of day and night, waking and sleeping, life and death, wet and dry, good and evil. "What was cold soon warms,/ and warmth soon cools./ So moisture dries,/ and dry things drown." And: "The earth is melted/ into the sea/ by that same reckoning/ whereby the sea/ sinks...
...Shade. "Character is fate." The Heraclitean precept has been mislaid by a generation of moviemakers more concerned on the whole with their medium than with Man. In this resolutely ordinary yet oddly powerful little picture, a Czech director named Jiří (pronounced Yershee) Weiss, a British scriptwriter named David Mercer
Among those read were, "Spring and Fall," "Felix Randall," "The Leaden Echo and Golden Echo," "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of Resurrection," "The Windhover," and three sonnets...
Above all, Dean Russell offers a Heraclitean hope of eternal flux in man's affairs, recalls that school reforms have often come after defeats. The Dean fears the U.S. itself may be least progressive: he sees a growing trend toward medievalism, scholasticism and general educational reaction...