Quotes from Parmenides

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

Give me the power to produce fever and I'll cure all disease.

You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.

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 and continuous.

Ex nihilo nihil fit

It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.

To be and to have meaning are the same.

Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them to be true

Let reason alone decide

Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are the same thing.

for "to be thought" and "to be" are the same thing.

Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men's opinions in which rests no true belief

It is the same thing that can be thought and for the sake of which the thought exists;

to gar auto noein estin te kai einai

For this shall never be proved, that the things that are not are; and do thou restrain thy thought from this way of inquiry. Nor let habit force thee to cast a wandering eye upon this devious track, or to turn thither thy resounding ear or thy tongue; but do thou judge the subtle refutation of their discourse uttered by me.

Nada ocurre realmente en el Universo: todo está aquí y ahora".

Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things, as well the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all. Yet none the less shalt thou learn of these things also, since thou must judge approvedly of the things that seem to men as thou goest through all things in thy journey.

Or how could it come into being ? If it came into being, it is not; nor is it if it is going to be in the future. Thus is becoming extinguished and passing away not to be heard of Nor is it divisible, since it is all alike, and there is no more of it in one place than in another, to hinder it from holding together, nor less of it, but everything is full of what is.

Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things, as well the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all.

Shining by night with borrowed light, wandering round the earth.