15 Quotes by Parmenides

to gar auto noein estin te kai einai

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.

Let reason alone decide

Let reason alone decide.

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

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

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.

Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are – bar your thought from this road of inquiry.