Parmenides

"Seek not what seems, but what truly is."

"The ultimate nature of reality is unchanging and eternal."

"Common sense leads us astray from truth."

"Only the brave can follow reason to its conclusion."

"Being is the ground of all existence."

"Nonbeing has no role in reality."

"The paradoxes of change show that becoming is impossible."

"Reality transcends the categories of our ordinary experience."

"Being and non-being are the same, and not the same."

"What is, is eternal; what is not, never was."

"The path of truth is narrow and difficult to walk."

"To think and to be are one and the same thing."

"Change is but an illusion of the senses."

"All things that come into being must pass away, yet Being itself is eternal."

"The mortal mind grasps only opinions, not truth."

"What can be thought must be; what cannot be thought cannot be."

"Reality is one, unchanging, and indivisible."

"The void does not exist, for existence itself is fullness."

"Motion and change are impossibilities in a truly real world."

"Seek not the scattered opinions of mortals, but the unity of Being."

"The senses deceive us into believing in multiplicity and change."

"In the heart of Being lies perfect stillness and eternal rest."

"To understand reality, you must transcend the illusions of perception."

"Being has no beginning and will have no end."

"The path of seeming is forever barred from the path of truth."

"All that appears to come and go is but appearance."

"In perfect Being, there is no space for difference or distinction."

"The mind that wanders in opinion never touches the face of truth."

"What truly is cannot have come from nothing, nor pass into nothing."

"The world of multiplicity is the world of illusion and deceit."