“You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.” This statement sums up what Heraclitus’ philosophy about the nature of being was. He looked at everything as being in a constant state of flux, or continuous change, and so reality to him was “a chain of transitions.” Heraclitus explained that ‘nothing what is now will be the same tomorrow,’ and with that it is said that he planted the idea of impermanence (not being permanent or continual) into Greek thought, and after Heraclitus Greek philosophy was not the same anymore. Another thing that Heraclitus believed was that fire is the origin from which everything else arises, and said that fire itself is the symbol of perpetual change because it transforms a substance without being a substance itself. Heraclitus believed in a universal reason which guides everything that happens in nature and humans, he called this reason God, or logos. When Heraclitus spoke of God, he didn’t mean the Greek gods nor a

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