text: Friedrich Nietzsche, in Ecce Homo, wrote that he feels "warmest" in proximity to this philosopher, because this philosopher affirms the need for destruction.
full_question: Friedrich Nietzsche, in Ecce Homo, wrote that he feels "warmest" in proximity to this philosopher, because this philosopher affirms the need for destruction. Hegel, in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, claims that his own logic adapts all the thought of this man, who proposed a cosmic "downward path" and "upward path." A finger-wagging follower of this man discusses the nature of words in Plato's dialogue Cratylus. This man's term aletheia was glossed as "disclosure" of truth by Martin Heidegger. This native of Ephesus discussed the attunement of the bow and lyre, and posited a unity of opposites. His belief in nature as "flux" might explain his adage that you can't step in the same river twice. For 10 points, name this pre-Socratic who said all things come from and return to fire.
first_sentence: Friedrich Nietzsche, in Ecce Homo, wrote that he feels "warmest" in proximity to this philosopher, because this philosopher affirms the need for destruction.
raw_answer: Heraclitus of Ephesus [or HerÃ¡kleitos]