In the beginning, Socrates said to me Know thyself and you will see But Plato dreamed of a world so bright Where shadows fade and truth is light Aristotle taught: Reason will shine Virtue's a habit, a path divine While stoic Seneca wisely states Embrace your fate, don't fight the gates From Heraclitus, I heard the call All things change, no stream's the same at all Epictetus warns: What you can control Is your mind, so free your soul Descartes declared: I think, therefore I am While Kant sought reason's guiding hand Nietzsche cried out: God is dead Yet we return where we once tread Hobbes described a world so grim Man is a wolf: So trust is thin Rousseau believed in setting us free But chains still bind eternally From Heraclitus, I heard the call All things change, no stream's the same at all Epictetus warns: What you can control Is your mind, so free your soul Between doubt and faith, reason and pain The wise before us light the way But the truth, perhaps, none can see I know nothing is enough for me From Heraclitus, I heard the call All things change, no stream's the same at all Epictetus warns: What you can control Is your mind, so free your soul From Heraclitus, I heard the call All things change, no stream's the same at all Epictetus warns: What you can control Is your mind, so free your soul