Top 17 Parmenides Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.
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#4. 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.
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#5. It is all one to me where I begin;
for I shall come back again there.
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#7. It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.
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#8. Give me the power to produce fever and I'll cure all disease.
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#9. Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.
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#10. To be and to have meaning are the same.
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#11. Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals
have given, believing them to be true
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#12. Every thing is of the nature of no thing.
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#13. Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are - bar your thought from this road of inquiry.
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#14. You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.
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#15. Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this
is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it,
for thought and being are the same thing.
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#16. Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.
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