Quote of the day: Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher who lived around 500 BCE in the city of Ephesus. Unlike philosophers who searched for stability or permanence, Heraclitus believed that the universe is defined by continuous motion. He is often associated with the phrase panta rhei "everything flows" although those exact words do not appear in his surviving writings. His philosophy revolved around the idea that reality is like a river: always moving, always transforming. To him, fire symbolized this eternal process of change because fire is never static; it exists only by constantly consuming and transforming what it touches.
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