Zeno of Elea

"Being cannot come from non-being, nor can it return to it."

"The mover must move through space; space is infinite; therefore, the mover is infinite."

"All things are in motion, yet nothing moves—the paradox is the truth."

"To divide is to divide infinitely; to act infinitely is to act not at all."

"The real cannot change, for change would make it other than itself."

"Achilles pursues the tortoise in a race of eternal intervals."

"What is common to all multiplicity is the impossibility of its existence."

"The stadium: bodies move past each other at double speed—yet speed itself is paradoxical."

"Being is one; if it is many, it is nothing; therefore, multiplicity is illusory."

"To speak of change is to speak of what is becoming what it is not—a logical impossibility."

"The infinite cannot be completed, yet we act as if it can—herein lies our error."

"Eternity is not endless time, but the negation of time itself."

"What is, is eternal; what changes, is not; therefore, the changing world is not real."

"The divisibility of space into infinite parts renders motion mathematically impossible."

"All becoming implies a time before becoming; all ceasing implies a time after ceasing."

"The senses deceive in all things; only the unchangeable is known to intellect."

"To accept multiplicity is to accept that something both is and is not—contradiction."

"The mover must first move to the midpoint; before that, to another midpoint ad infinitum."

"Being cannot be younger or older than itself, for it exists eternally in the same state."

"What is not cannot be part of what is; therefore, void cannot exist."

"The paradoxes of motion prove the illusory nature of sensory perception."

"If things are many, they must be both finite and infinite—an absurdity."

"The arrow is at rest in each instant of its flight; rest is not motion; therefore, motion is not real."

"All things appear to move because our minds are deceived by illusion."

"What comes to be must come from something; that something must have come to be previously."

"The infinite cannot be added to the finite; therefore, the finite cannot exist in an infinite universe."

"Being is complete and perfect—it cannot become anything other than what it eternally is."

"To move is to be in transition; to be in transition is to be between being and non-being."

"Space, like time, divides infinitely; thus, any distance is never truly covered."

"The plurality of things leads necessarily to the plurality of contradictions."