Zeno of Elea Quotes

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

Nothing is more real than nothing.

We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics.

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

Myth is the nothing that is all.

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

A good life is a main argument.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?