Heraclitus, in whose presence alone, I felt warmer and more at ease than anywhere else. The yea-saying to the impermanence and annihilation of things, which is the decisive feature of a Dionysian philosophy; the yea-saying to contradiction and war, the postulation of Becoming, together with the radical rejection even of the concept Being—in all these things, at all events, I must recognize him who has some nearest to me in thought hitherto.
• “The Birth of Tragedy,” § 3.1.3

Heraklit, in dessen Nähe überhaupt mir wärmer, mir wohler zu Muthe wird als irgendwo sonst. Die Bejahung des Vergehens und Vernichtens, das Entscheidende in einer dionysischen Philosophie, das Jasagen zu Gegensatz und Krieg, das Werden, mit radikaler Ablehnung auch selbst des Begriffs „Sein”—darin muss ich unter allen Umständen das mir Verwandteste anerkennen, was bisher gedacht worden ist.

— Heraclitus on Ecce Homo (book)

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Heraklit, in dessen Nähe überhaupt mir wärmer, mir wohler zu Muthe wird als irgendwo sonst. Die Bejahung des Vergehens und Vernichtens, das Entscheidende in einer dionysischen Philosophie, das Jasagen zu Gegensatz und Krieg, das Werden, mit radikaler Ablehnung auch selbst des Begriffs „Sein”—darin muss ich unter allen Umständen das mir Verwandteste anerkennen, was bisher gedacht worden ist." in the context of "Heraclitus, in whose presence alone, I felt warmer and more at ease than anywhere else. The yea-saying to the impermanence and annihilation of things, which is the decisive feature of a Dionysian philosophy; the yea-saying to contradiction and war, the postulation of Becoming, together with the radical rejection even of the concept Being—in all these things, at all events, I must recognize him who has some nearest to me in thought hitherto.
• “The Birth of Tragedy,” § 3.1.3" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Heraclitus

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC) was a Greek philosopher, known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and for establishing the term Logos (λόγος) in Western philosophy as meaning both the source and fundamental order of the Cosmos.