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  • We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.

  • Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

  • Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.

    Giving   Fever   Disease  
  • Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

  • Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.

    Mind   Far Away  
  • Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.

    Bars   Inquiry  
    Frag. B 7.1-2, quoted by Plato, "Sophist", 237a,
  • There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.

    Unique   Stories   Whole  
    Frag. B 8.1-4, quoted by Simplicius, "Commentary on the Physics", 144,
  • It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

    Frag. B 5, quoted by Proclus, "Commentary on the Parmenides", 708,
  • Change is an illusion.

  • Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease.

    Giving   Fever   Disease  
  • Let reason alone decide.

    Reason  
  • The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

    Thinking   Enquiry   Path  
    Frag. B 2.2-6, quoted by Proclus, "Commentary on the Timaeus I", 345,
  • You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

    Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, "Against the Mathematicians", vii. 3,
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Parmenides

  • Born: 502 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher