“Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are the same thing.” — Parmenides Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only ways of enquiry thatlead to knowledge ... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it. The Other, that non-being is andthat it necessarily is, I call a wholly incredible course, since thou canst not recognizenot-being ... nor couldst thou speak of… — Parmenides Copy Share
Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind. — Parmenides Copy Share Image
Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry. — Parmenides Copy Share Image
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to… — Parmenides Copy Share Image
We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete.… — Parmenides Copy Share Image
It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again. — Parmenides Copy Share Image
“It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.” — Parmenides Copy Share Image
