The Never Ending Pool

Here's some wiki to lay on you:

"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."

-- Heraclitus, On The Nature of Things, Fragment 41; Quoted by Plato in Cratylus


Variant translations:
You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in.
You cannot step twice into the same stream. For as you are stepping in, other waters are ever flowing on to you.
You cannot step twice into the same river.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
It is impossible to step into the same river twice.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.


Never heard that final one, but I like the addition of "not the same man." This probably added post-Sartre. 8-)