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Heraclitus

Ephesus · c. 500 BCE · Flux

Where each thread leads

  • Logos

    A Greek word meaning word, account, ratio and reason at once — and one of the most consequential ambiguities in Western thought.

  • Philosophy

    Literally the love of wisdom: the practice of asking questions carefully enough that the answers can be examined.

  • Wisdom

    Not the amount you know, but what you do with it — judgement formed by knowledge, experience and restraint.

  • Tao

    The way — both the course things naturally take and the path a person might align with.