Parmenides Quotes

That which is cannot be true.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Life is but thought.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Being is the great explainer.

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

The actuality of thought is life.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.

I desire therefore I exist.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.