Word: heraclitus
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...Heraclitus said a man cannot stand in the same river twice, the flow of things being what it is; 1960 and 1988 are not only different rivers, they run in different courses altogether. It is startling to remember now that Kennedy's Catholicism was the single greatest issue of the campaign and almost unhorsed him in a race he won by less than 120,000 votes. It is a trivia question to ask which two islands off the coast of mainland China received inordinate attention during the second and third television debates between Kennedy and Nixon (Quemoy and Matsu). Both...
James Schlesinger was back in a little office last week, stuffing his pipe full of Sir Walter Raleigh, quoting Heraclitus ("Character is destiny"), pondering his singular journey through the high corridors of power and his sudden descent. He had for the moment somewhat the look of a trapped creature, with the low ceiling of the office at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies pressing down...
...Adams junior said yesterday that during a meal earlier this week Kiely told him "a pair like Fowles and Heraclitus" would appear on the exam...
...begins, but gradually the philosophical gruel becomes downright insidious. If one actually were to try to excavate one idea from Siddhartha, it might be that "everything changes," (they also say that "everything returns" in the same breath--the logic isn't clear) "like the river"--a direct steal from Heraclitus's idea that one never steps into the same river twice. At any rate the logic of the film reveals that one should not fight time, or chase wealth, but live in the present and for the moment. There are no "goals": do not grasp and you will not suffer...
...impressive. But the real life of these paintings comes from Raffael's ability to take a slice of river and, by giving it absolute presence, turn it into the stuff of contemplation. The Water Paintings are lyrical considerations of time and mutability, as well as matter. "You cannot," Heraclitus remarked, "step into the same river twice"-an observation that a later Greek sophist neatly amended: "You cannot step into the same river once." It is a text for the silences of Raffael's work...