Heraclitus’ Five Lessons for a Better Life

On flux, self-knowledge, and accepting our own ignorance.

Jon Hawkins
The Apeiron Blog
Published in
6 min readAug 28, 2020

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Active around 500 BC, Pre-Socratic Philosopher “Heraclitus,” was a self-declared recluse — he lived a life of solitude as a means to carefully study and observe the reality around him.

His views are today regarded as controversial. And, at the time, he caused controversy…

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