I, Heraclitus, was a Greek philosopher of the late 6th century BCE. Criticizing my predecessors and contemporaries for their failure to see the unity in experience, I announced an everlasting Word (Logos) according to which all things are one, in some sense. Opposites are necessary for life, but they are unified in a system of balanced exchanges. The world itself consists of a law-like interchange of elements, symbolized by fire. Thus the world is not to be identified with any particular substance, but rather with an ongoing process governed by a law of change. The underlying law of nature also manifests itself as a moral law for human beings. I was the first Western philosopher to go beyond physical theory in search of metaphysical foundations and moral applications.
In the end, I became a hermit, leaving the city and living in the mountains where I fed on plants and herbs. Because of this I contracted dropsy and was forced to return to the town. I asked the doctors in my riddling fashion if they could change a rainstorm into a draught. When they failed to understand me, I buried himself in a byre, hoping that the dropsy would be vaporized by the heat of the dung. But I was met with no success even by this means and died at the age of sixty.
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