PARMENIDES

(Parmenides of Elea)


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Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason …
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Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.
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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.
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It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.
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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 be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.
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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.
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It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion
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Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.
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Parmenides of Elea (/pɑːrˈmɛnɪdiːz ... ˈɛliə/; Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (meaning "Great Greece," the term which Romans gave to Greek-populated coastal areas in Southern Italy). He is thought to have been in his prime (or "floruit") around 475 BC.