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“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of pre-existent things: so that all-becoming might more correctly be called becoming-mixed, and all corruption, becoming-separate.”

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quoted in Heinrich Ritter, Tr. from German by Alexander James William Morrison, The History of Ancient Philosophy, Vol.1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pUgXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA284 (1838)

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“The Greeks follow a wrong usage in speaking of coming into being and passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is mingling and separation of things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being mixture, and passing away separation.”

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Frag. B 17, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.

“Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself.”

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Frag. B 12, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.