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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/we-can-speak-and-think-only-of-what-exists-and-what-exists-is/)

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## More by Parmenides

> [“Ex nihilo nihil fit”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/ex-nihilo-nihil-fit/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/you-must-learn-all-things-both-the-unshaken-heart-of-persuasive-truth/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [The only ways of enquiry thatlead to knowledge ... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/the-only-ways-of-enquiry-thatlead-to-knowledge-the-one-way-assuming/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/give-me-a-chance-to-create-a-fever-and-i-will-cure-any-disease/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/gaze-steadfastly-at-things-which-though-far-away-are-yet-present-to/)

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> [Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/never-will-this-prevail-that-the-things-that-are-not-are-bar-your/)

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> [The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/the-only-roads-of-enquiry-there-are-to-think-of-one-that-it-is-and/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/we-can-speak-and-think-only-of-what-exists-and-what-exists-is/)

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> [Every thing is of the nature of no thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/every-thing-is-of-the-nature-of-no-thing/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [Change is an illusion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/change-is-an-illusion/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/it-is-indifferent-to-me-where-i-am-to-begin-for-there-shall-i-return/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [“It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/it-is-all-one-to-me-where-i-begin-for-i-shall-come-back-again-there/)

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> [“Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are the same thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/thou-canst-not-recognize-not-being-for-this-is-impossible-nor-couldst/)

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> [Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/being-alone-is-and-nothing-is-altogether-not/)

[Parmenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parmenides/)

> [Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parmenides/give-me-the-power-to-produce-fever-and-i-ll-cure-all-disease/)

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