Zeno of Elea

"The diversity of the world we perceive may be the greatest of all illusions."

"To move is to be in a place and not in a place simultaneously—an impossibility."

"The one alone is; the many are merely the confusion of limited minds."

"Our certainty in the reality of motion is the foundation of a grand deception."

"All becoming is impossible because being cannot arise from non-being."

"The infinite series of divisions in any distance proves that traversal is logically impossible."

"Motion is impossible, for that which moves must move either in the place it is or in the place it is not; but it cannot move in the place it is, nor can it move in the place it is not."

"The many cannot be, for nothing can be many without first being one."

"If the infinite exists, it must be nowhere, for if it were somewhere, it would be bounded by that space."

"That which has magnitude cannot be one, and that which is one cannot have magnitude."

"To say something is is to speak truly; to say something is not is to speak falsely."

"The hand that writes philosophy must first understand the impossibility of writing it."

"Being is eternal, unchanging, and indivisible—all change is illusion."

"If you cannot traverse an infinite series, then motion itself is a phantom of the mind."

"The arrow in flight is at rest in every instant, therefore it never truly moves."

"Multiplicity leads to contradiction; therefore, true reality must be one."

"Space divides infinitely inward; thus, the smallest distance is never reached."

"The paradox is not in nature, but in our understanding of it."

"What is cannot have come to be, and what is not cannot come to be."

"To move from point A to point B, you must first move halfway—and then you are no closer."

"Reality is one, eternal, and immobile—the world of change is mere appearance."

"If things were infinite in number, they would be both infinitely great and infinitely small."

"The visible world contradicts itself; therefore, trust reason alone."

"Being and non-being cannot both exist, yet both must be conceived."

"The runner cannot catch the tortoise, though he is swifter, for he must traverse infinity."

"Sensory perception deceives; only logic reveals truth."

"All things are either one or many; if many, they are infinite; if infinite, then all is nothing."

"Change is the greatest illusion, for what was cannot become what it was not."

"To comprehend infinity is to understand the limits of comprehension itself."

"The moment is not time; time is the infinite collection of moments."