Parmenides on light
Parmenides16 quotes“Now that all things have been named light and night, and the names which belong to the power of each have been assigned to these things and to those, everything is full at once of light and dark night, both equal, since neither has ought to do with the other.”
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Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease.
ParmenidesParmenides It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.
ParmenidesParmenides To be and to have meaning are the same.
ParmenidesParmenides It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.
ParmenidesParmenides 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.
ParmenidesParmenides Let reason alone decide.
ParmenidesParmenides 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.
ParmenidesParmenides The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
ParmenidesParmenides 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.
ParmenidesParmenides Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.
ParmenidesParmenides 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.
ParmenidesParmenides Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are same.
ParmenidesParmenides Mortals have made up their minds to name two forms, one of which they should not name, and that is where they go astray from the truth.
ParmenidesParmenides It is the same thing that can be thought and for the sake of which thought exists.
ParmenidesParmenides Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them to be true.
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