“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.”

—  Parmenides

Frag. B 7.3-8.1, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians, vii. 3

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