The longer I live, the more impressive Heraclitus becomes:

“We should let ourselves be guided by what is common to all. Yet, although the Logos is common to all, most men live as if each of them had a private intelligence of his own.”

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The simplicity of Heraclitus makes him strange. There are no argumentative folds in his philosophy. He makes the simplest, barest statements. There is no space for obfuscation or concealment.

When the surprises leap out of his philosophy and change the whole world at once, they could only have come from your own mind.

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Heraclitus was called “the obscure” and the “weeping philosopher”.

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Some things we have immediately in common:

• The phenomonal world
• Language
• Social-collaborative arrangements
• Inter-subjective relationships