“Different waters flow over those who step into the same rivers” (§214). It is the same river on different occasions, but with different bits of water each time. This illustrates the point we’ve already been talking about, the unity of opposites: just like the gold is both valuable and worthless, the river is both the same and different. So maybe he did think that all things were constantly changing, and in flux, while also being the same and stable. This would explain his making war or strife a kind of universal principle. But it leaves standing his idea that all things are one; in fact, it
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