PHILOSOPHER

Heraclitus

535 BC - 470 BC

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Heraclitus (; Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Hērákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on ancient and modern Western philosophy, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger. Little is known of Heraclitus's life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heraclitus has received more than 4,349,840 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Heraclitus is the 14th most popular philosopher (up from 29th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Philosopher.

Heraclitus is most famous for the saying "you cannot step into the same river twice."

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  • 88.76

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  • 94

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 20.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Heraclitus ranks 14 out of 1,267. Before him are Immanuel Kant, Avicenna, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Augustine of Hippo. After him are Thales of Miletus, Francis Bacon, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Arthur Schopenhauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 535 BC, Heraclitus ranks 1. After him are Phrynichus, and Theron of Acragas. Among people deceased in 470 BC, Heraclitus ranks 1. After him are Parmenides, and Euphronios.

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    Heraclitus

    PHILOSOPHER

    535 BC - 470 BC

    HPI: 88.76

    Rank: 1

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    Parmenides

    PHILOSOPHER

    501 BC - 470 BC

    HPI: 84.41

    Rank: 2

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    Euphronios

    POLITICIAN

    520 BC - 470 BC

    HPI: 65.97

    Rank: 3

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Heraclitus ranks 4 out of 1,347. Before him are Suleiman the Magnificent (1494), Paul the Apostle (5), and Herodotus (-484). After him are Thales of Miletus (-623), Saint Nicholas (270), Osman I (1254), Saint George (280), Selim II (1524), Mehmed the Conqueror (1432), Ahmed I (1590), and Galen (129).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Heraclitus ranks 1. After him are Thales of Miletus (-623), Diogenes (-404), Anaximander (-610), Anaxagoras (-500), Epictetus (50), Xenophanes (-570), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263), Leucippus (-500), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), and Chrysippus (-281).

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