Parmenides: Thing

Parmenides was ancient Greek philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on thing.
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“For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.”

Parmenides

Frag. B 3, quoted by Plotinus, Enneads V, i.8

“You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.”

Parmenides

Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians, vii. 3; Simplicius, Commentary on the Heavens, 557-8; Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus I, 345

“Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.”

Parmenides

Frag. B 7.1-2, quoted by Plato, Sophist, 237a