Parmenides

"Reality is static and unchanging."

"What has being cannot acquire nonbeing."

"The search for truth requires courage."

"Wisdom lies in understanding what truly is."

"The wise see through illusions of change."

"Being is perfect and complete."

"Incompleteness would imply deficiency."

"What is must be all alike."

"Difference implies nonbeing."

"The infinite and finite cannot both exist."

"Reality transcends human perception."

"Follow reason, not opinion."

"Truth is eternal; falsehood is temporary."

"The path of truth is narrow and straight."

"Error comes from confusing being with becoming."

"Investigate the nature of all things."

"Inquiry is the path to understanding."

"Question what you believe to be true."

"The fundamental question is: why is there being rather than nonbeing?"

"All explanations must rest on being."

"Nothing comes from nothing."

"Being cannot be created or destroyed."

"The universe is rational and ordered."

"Logic reveals the structure of reality."

"Contradiction is impossible in true being."

"Unified reality underlies apparent multiplicity."

"The senses lead us away from truth."

"Reason is our only guide to reality."

"Being is uncreated and eternal."

"There is no time before being was."