Man

Heracleitus seems to have had little love for his fellow man nor they for him. He spurned his fellow citizen's attempts to encourage him to participate in political and social life of the city. His focus was on the human soul which participated in all life through its connection with the Logos. This was an immanent, divine, intelligent, creative force - the Logos, a sort of world soul which permeated and governed all life: "If you travel every path you will not find the limits of the soul, so deep is its logos." There is a tendency for later commentators to speak of the Logos as God. To Heracleitus, the Logos encompassed all the opposites, being "day-night, winter-summer, war-peace, satiety-hunger".