Parmenides

And yet those natural philosophers, very rarely, when they are stuck at some point, cry out, as if driven by inspiration — Empedocles indeed so that he sometimes seems to me to rave — that all things are hidden, that we perceive nothing, discern nothing, can find out at all nothing of what kind a thing is;

Parmenides and Xenophanes, in verses less good — though still in verses — rebuke the arrogance of those, as if in anger, who, when nothing can be known, dare to say that they know.

Parmenides said it was fire which moves, earth which is formed by it.

Parmenides, then, becomes a hearer of Xenophanes, and of him Zeno, then Leucippus, then Democritus.

"Both the unshaken heart of well-persuasive Truth, and the opinions of mortals, in which is no true faith.

" And the great Parmenides, as Plato says in the Sophist, writes of the divine somewhat thus:

As for Parmenides, he devised something quite fanciful:

Parmenides the Eleatic introduced as gods fire and earth;

Parmenides and Melissus, of one;

I say he is youngest of the gods and ever young, while those early dealings with the gods which Hesiod and Parmenides relate, I take to have been the work of Necessity, not of Love, if there is any truth in those stories.

Parmenides says that of the things which seem, nothing exists except the universe.

if Parmenides, there is nothing except the one;

Empedocles and Parmenides, a cooling;