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On the MBTI is Unreliable

MBTI doesn't truly capture a person's character. Human personality is too complex. Heraclitus says "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man." Humans change and so does our personality. The likely assumption by MBTI is that there is such as... read more

Favorite Westerner Philosopher

"The only constant is change, nothing remains the same ." - Heraclitus

Life a River of Change: Change is the only constant

In Hermann Hesse’s famous book Siddhartha, there is a character named Vasudeva. Vasudeva says to Siddhartha, the main character, “I have learned from the river; you too should learn from the river. The river teaches everything.” What does Vasudeva mean by learning from the river? Please... (edited) read more

You never steps in the same river twice :)

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." Heraclitus

Change

There is nothing permanent in the world except change. -- Heraclitus

Nature

nature "which no man and no God made" (Heraclitus) represented that immutable background whose laws, regulated by the constraint of necessity (ananke)