Facts for Kids

🌊 Heraclitus was an ancient Greek philosopher from Ephesus, a city by the sea.

📅 He lived around 535-475 BC, long before the Roman Empire existed.

🌪️ He is famous for saying, 'Everything changes.'

🇹🇷 Heraclitus was born in what is now modern-day Turkey.

🤔 People called him 'The Obscure' because his ideas were sometimes hard to understand.

😢 He is sometimes called the 'Weeping Philosopher' for believing life has both joy and sadness.

🌈 He introduced the concept of 'the unity of opposites' showing how everything has two sides.

🌸 He taught that everything is always changing, like the seasons of the year.

📖 Heraclitus compared life to a river, saying you can never step into the same water twice.

🎶 He believed in 'Logos,' which is the reason or order behind everything.