Heraclitus

Heraclitus was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, born in circa 540 in Greek colony of Ephesus, in Ionia, Asia Minor, where he is said he have spent all of his life, and died there circa 480 BC. He was known as “The Obscure” or “The Riddler,” due to his difficult, elliptical, and paradoxical style of writing.