Panta rhei
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Panta Rei is a dictum attributed to Heraclitus.
Πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei) "everything flows" either was not spoken by Heraclitus or did not survive as a quotation of his. This famous aphorism used to characterize Heraclitus' thought comes from Simplicius, a neoplatonist, and from Plato's Cratylus. The word rhei (cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream, and to the etymology of Rhea according to Plato's Cratylus."
Compare with the Latin adages Omnia mutantur and Tempora mutantur (8 CE) and the Japanese tale Hōjōki, (1200 CE) which contains the same image of the changing river, and the central Buddhist doctrine of impermanence.
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See also
- Panta Rei, a fictional secret society featured in Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum
- Hōjōki – Japanese
- Impermanence – Buddhism
- Omnia mutantur, Tempora mutantur – Latin
- Becoming (philosophy)
- You cannot step in the same river twice
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Constructivist epistemology
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