I leave you the best Parmenides phrases (530 BC-515 BC), probably the Greek philosopher whose philosophy is best preserved today. All that is preserved of his writings is from a philosophical poem divided into two parts: The way of truth and The way of the opinions of mortals.
You may also be interested in these phrases of Anaximander or these of famous philosophers.
-The same is every starting point for me, because I have to return to it.
-Give me the power to produce fever and I will cure all diseases.
-Change is an illusion.
-Stare at things that, although distant, are still present in the mind.
-Everything is of the nature of nothing.
-Let reason decide alone.
-You cannot recognize non-being, you cannot talk about it, because thought and being are the same thing.
-Steeds take me as far as my spirits can.
-The same remains the same, and rests in itself.
-The reason will end up being right.
-War is the art of destroying men, politics is the art of deceiving them.
-Music that doesn't describe something is nothing but noise.
-Everything there is has always existed. Nothing can come from nothing. And something that exists, cannot be turned into anything.
-There is a missing story, a path, that is. And on this path there are many signs in which the being is not created and is imperishable, whole, unique, firm and complete..
-You must learn all things, the unshakeable heart of persuasive truth and the opinions of mortals where there is no guarantee.
-Therefore, all these things are nothing more than the names that mortals have given them, believing them to be true..
-Well, the same thing is what can be thought and can be.
-For you will never tame what it is not to be. But you, from this search path, remove the thought that you think.
-Do not let the habit be born from experience, force yourself on this path, directing your eyes and ears aimlessly, but judging with reason.
-The universe, for those who knew how to cover it from a single point of view, would not be, if it were allowed to say so, more than a single fact and a great truth.
-We can only talk and think about what exists. And what exists has not been created and is imperishable because it is a whole, complete and does not change. It was not or should not be different from what it is now, all at once, one and continuous.
-Well then, I'm going to tell you (and pay your attention to the story that you hear me)
the only search paths conceivable:
the one, the one that is and it is not possible that it is not,
it is a route of persuasion, since it accompanies the truth;
the other, that it is not and that it must not be,
this I assure you is a totally inscrutable path.
-And now only the mention of one way
remains; the one that is. And in it there are signs
galore; that it, as it is, is unbegotten and imperishable,
integer, unique, immutable, and complete.
-The mares that lead me led me to the goal of my heart, since in their career they transported me to the famous path of the deity that, alone, leads the man initiated into knowledge through everything. I was taken there, because the very intelligent mares who pull my cart took me there, while some maidens showed me the way.
-There is still only one possibility of talking about a path: what it is. In this there are many signs that what is has not been generated and is imperishable, since it is of intact members, intrepid and without end. It never was, nor will it ever be, since it is, now, together all, one, continuous. Because what origin will you look for? How, where would it have taken boom? Of what it is not, I will not let you say it or think it, because it is not possible to say or think that it is not. And what need would have caused it to be born later rather than before, taking the principle of what nothing is? Thus, it is necessary that it be totally, or that it is not.
-Nor will the force of faith ever allow something to be generated by its side from what it is not. For this reason, neither generate nor perish Justice allows him, releasing his chains, but has him subject.
-Nor is it divisible, since it is all the same, nor is there more anywhere, which would prevent it from being continuous, nor less, but everything is full of what it is. This is why everything is continuous: because what is touches what is.
-The same is what can be thought and that for which thought exists that is thought, for without what it is, and at which point it is expressed, you will not find thinking. Because nothing different neither is, nor will be, next to what is; at least Fate tied him to be whole and immobile.
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