Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
Heraclitus
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Quote Analysis
This quote by Heraclitus reflects his often paradoxical view of existence. He suggests that what we call life may in fact be an illusion, masking a deeper or opposite reality—death. This could imply that the process of living is inherently tied to decay and inevitable mortality, emphasizing the transient and ever-changing nature of life.
About the Author
- Pre-Socratic philosopher from ancient Greece.
- Known for the doctrine of change, famously stating "everything flows" (panta rhei).
- Lived around 535–475 BCE, during a period of philosophical emergence in the Ionian tradition.
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2646ec3b056589ff53b63049855a19d0 -- a decaying temple-like structure split between a vibrant city of synthetic life and a vast desolate landscape of crumbling bones and ash, in a futuristic reimagining of ancient Ionian architecture with glowing marble monoliths and ritual firelight, a spectral procession of cloaked figures walking backward into a horizon where the sun rises and falls simultaneously, cracked hourglasses suspended in midair leaking luminous dust, Brutalism and Infrared styles blended naturally, contemplative mood from Philosophy and tags of impermanence and mortality expressed via shifting shadows, slow-moving fog, holographic echoes, soft ember-glow drifting over obsidian surfaces, palette of muted crimson, deep twilight blues and molten orange highlights, wide-angle composition emphasizing the scale between sacred silence and death’s inevitability, cinematic lens with ray-traced reflections, ultra-detailed, photo-realistic, no text, --v 7 --ar 16:9
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