Zeno of Elea Quotes on Nature
Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Parmenides. This page collects quotes attributed to Zeno of Elea on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Zeno of Elea:
“What is in motion moves neither in the place in which it is, nor in one in which it is not.”
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Attributed to Zeno of Elea:
“If everything that exists has a place, place too will have a place, and so on ad infinitum.”
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Attributed to Zeno of Elea:
“That which, being added to another, does not make it greater, and being taken away from another does not make it less, is nothing.”
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Attributed to Zeno of Elea:
“If there are many things, they are both small and great: so small as to have no magnitude, so great as to be infinite.”
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Attributed to Zeno of Elea:
“The flying arrow is at rest.”