“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… — Parmenides Copy Share Image
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
