/lit/ - Literature

I pity this guy. Honestly. He's so detached from reality, and I mean that in the general sense - encompassing everything. He's lacking in spirit, passion, intelligence...

While Socrates' social alienation was endearing and poignant, Heraclitus' was largely self imposed due to his aggressiveness and misanthropy. He's the philosophical equivalent to the internet troll, and to the madman who can't make any sense out of anything. And at times, he comes off like a child - and he really lived like one! However, not a child in the charming playful way, but rather like an insecure Diogenes, on the verge of foaming with rabies. In his fragments, he talks about the sun having the width of a human foot. Fitting his body is devoured by dogs while covered in shit, given how absurd his thought is.

Heraclitus is the saddest example of hubris and delusional cynicism outside of fictional literature. Diogenes had a warmer soul.