- Philosophy, ancient, Ancient Philosophy, Aphorisms and apothegms, Early works to 1800
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Cool, character-led, grave and earnest.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780142437650
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First sentence
“When the iron hoe was a new invention, Pythagoras saw mathematical logic as a language of cosmic prophecy.”
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