Already in antiquity Heraclitus had a reputation for arrogance. In this Heraclitus reflects both Anaximander and the Pythagoreans .
Tension is essential to the existence and functioning of the bow and the lyre.
Fire lives by consuming. All things, he held,are made possible by fiery exchanges, and everliving, eternal fire is the root nature of all things. Heraclitus was the first philosopher, so far as we know, to make language the subject of philosophical reflection. He wrote in an obscure aphoristic, sometimes paradoxical style that suits, in its self-referential qualities, the ideas he expressed. Kronos, the chief Titan, assisted by Gaia, castrates Ouranos and assumes command.