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[1] Heraclitus, son of Bloson or, according to some, of Heracon, was a native of Ephesus. He flourished in the 69th Olympiad.
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He was lofty-minded beyond all other men,
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and over-weening, as is clear from his book in which he says:
Much learning does not teach understanding; else would it have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, or, again, Xenophanes and Hecataeus.
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For
this one thing is wisdom, to understand thought, as that which guides all the world everywhere.
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And he used to say that
Homer deserved to be chased out of the lists and beaten with rods, and Archilochus likewise.
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Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.
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