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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.
- You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty. Parmenides. Heart, Opinion, Persuasive.
- Change is an illusion. Parmenides. Illusion.
- Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease. Parmenides. Giving, Fever, Disease.
- “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.”
- “Ex nihilo nihil fit” ― Parmenides.
- “It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.” ― Parmenides, On the Order of Nature.
- “To be and to have meaning are the same.” ― Parmenides.
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You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.
Alphabetized by author The purest example of the Greek desire to comprehend, a desire which in him would have nothing to do with what was not strictly knowable. If later philosophers appear softer by comparison, it is perhaps because of a revivifying compromise they made, one more acceptable and more tolerant of the discourse we perhaps need; but, ...
Feb 8, 2008 · Parmenides. First published Fri Feb 8, 2008; substantive revision Mon Oct 19, 2020. Parmenides of Elea, active in the earlier part of the 5th c. BCE, authored a difficult metaphysical poem that has earned him a reputation as early Greek philosophy’s most profound and challenging thinker. His philosophical stance has typically been understood ...
Best 26 Quotes by Parmenides. “A single narrable path remains: what it is. And on this road there are abundant signs.”. Parmenides. “And what need would have driven him to be born sooner or later, starting from nothing?”. Parmenides. “Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.”. Parmenides. “Change is an illusion.”.
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Parmenides, an ancient Greek philosopher, was born in Elea, a Greek city in Southern Italy, around 515 BC. He is known for his profound ideas about reality and being, which have greatly influenced Western philosophy and helped shape our understanding of existence.
Yes, Socrates, said Parmenides; that is because you are still young; the time will come, if I am not mistaken, when philosophy will have a firmer grasp of you, and then you will not despise even the meanest things; at your age, you are too much disposed to regard opinions of men.
