‘There seems to be a root problem about the very nature of being,’ she went on. ‘Our being is an emanation of a continuous flux. It is anicca. But Heraclitus knew that too.’

‘Yes,’ Wizard Prang went on, ‘but not Empedocles. Zeno actually took the flux apart, so that even Aristotle could not put it back together again. He gave up on the problem, instead of inventing the differential calculus on the spot. Two thousand years wasted. So in the West, being has ended up as an essentially static entity. In the hands of a Jung it attains to flexibility, because he understood so much of the Vedanta, but mere flexibility isn’t enough. Yes, the problem is radical, all right.’

— The Chronicles of Wizard Prang by Stafford Beer