Parmenides Quotes on Mind
Parmenides of Elea was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC, the founder of the Eleatic school and one of the most influential thinkers of the Pre-Socratic period. This page collects quotes attributed to Parmenides on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Parmenides:
“It is the same thing to think and to be.”
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Attributed to Parmenides:
“Thinking and the thought that it is are the same.”
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“For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.”
Frag. B 3, quoted by Plotinus , Enneads V, i.8 -
“Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.”
Frag. B 7.1-2, quoted by Plato , Sophist , 237a -
“Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken.”
Frag. B 7.3-8.1, quoted by Sextus Empiricus , Against the Mathematicians , vii. 3