Parmenides

"Only the eternal and immutable deserve to be called real."

"The mind and what it comprehends are fundamentally one."

"To embrace being is to abandon the world of appearances."

"All becoming presupposes what already is."

"The cosmos is not created; it is eternal necessity."

"Reason, not sense, is the path to understanding."

"Being admits no difference, no change, no alteration."

"What is complete in itself needs no external cause."

"The impossible cannot even be thought without contradiction."

"All reality is encased in the bonds of necessity."

"The mortal world of opinion is bound by contradiction."

"Being is necessary; non-being is impossible."

"The goddess speaks two paths: truth and the ways of seeming."

"All that truly is is eternal and unchangeable."

"To know being is to transcend the illusions of change."

"Being cannot have come to be, for it always was."

"The world of sense is the world of false opinion."

"Reality is one, indivisible, and perfect."

"What is cannot cease to be; destruction is impossible."

"The eternal and unchanging alone merit the name of being."

"All multiplicity collapses under the logic of true being."

"The goddess guards the threshold between truth and illusion."

"Being is the only thing that truly is and ever shall be."

"Change is an illusion born of limited mortal perception."

"To think of what is not is to think nothing at all."

"All distinctions dissolve in the unity of being."

"The path of becoming is the path of error."

"Being stands alone, complete and self-sufficient."

"What is cannot be divided without contradiction."

"The search for truth requires abandoning sensory judgment."