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( panta rhei ) " everything flows " either was not spoken by Heraclitus or did not survive as a quotation of his.

This famous aphorism used to characterize Heraclitus ' thought comes from Simplicius, a neoplatonist, and from Plato's Cratylus.

The word rhei ( cf.

rheology ) is the Greek word for " to stream, and to the etymology of Rhea according to Plato's Cratylus.