You cannot step into the same river twice

Everything changes, nothing remains the same.

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[CCV334]

very true the sooner we get to grips with this the more we can enjoy life

[Bermuda Rao]

Heraclitus must be taught to all inhabitants of this planet. Everything is a direct result of "you cannot step into the same river twice".

[sloppytre]

thanks for that...

[JoeyFudd]

This comes across as rookie philosophy dressed up as deep, as if you haven't read you Wittgenstein and J.L. Austin. Heraclitus traded on an equivocation, using one sense of "same" to negate a perfectly valid other sense - to say I did not step into the Iowa river twice when I did is mere word play. For I made a valid move in the language game when I used "same," as when I say I order the "same" thing for lunch daily. You also seem to reify "change" rather than talk of the things that change.