Parmenides Quotes on Truth
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 truth, 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:
“What is, is; what is not, is not.”
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Attributed to Parmenides:
“It is necessary to speak and to think what is; for being is, but nothing is not.”
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Attributed to Parmenides:
“Thinking and the thought that it is are the same.”
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Attributed to Parmenides:
“What is is uncreated and indestructible, whole, of one kind, and unmoving.”