One work claims that had this philosopher actually known how to define language, "history would have gotten off to a different start." This thinker's conception of pen was used by that expositor to denote this thinker's conception of "the all." That expositor of this man claims that this man's concept of phusis can be rendered as "self-blossoming." This thinker's surviving work contains fragments like "the mysteries practiced among men are unholy mysteries" and "great deaths win greater portions." Octavio Paz's The Bow and the Lyre takes its ti
One work claims that had this philosopher actually known how to define language, "history would have gotten off to a different start." This thinker's conception of pen was used by that expositor to denote this thinker's conception of "the all." That expositor of this man claims that this man's concept of phusis can be rendered as "self-blossoming." This thinker's surviving work contains fragments like "the mysteries practiced among men are unholy mysteries" and "great deaths win greater portions." Octavio Paz's The Bow and the Lyre takes its title from another one of this man's writings, which are often uninterpretable, which is why this man is called the "Obscure Philosopher." He's not Parmenides, but the University of Freiburg Lectures delivered by Fink and Heidegger were expositions of his thought. For 10 points, identify this thinker who claimed "you cannot step twice into the same stream," a pre-Socratic who believed that fire was the element that composed the world.
One work claims that had this philosopher actually known how to define language, "history would have gotten off to a different start.
Heraclitus