Heraclitus Article

What did Heraclitus believe?

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Heraclitus asserted that the world exists as a coherent system in which a change in one direction is ultimately balanced by a corresponding change in another. He stressed the need for people to live together in social harmony but complained that most people failed to comprehend the universal principle through which all things are interrelated.