Parmenidean Being Quotes & Sayings

For now, the very breath of the beans and clover whispered to my heart that the day must come when it would be well for my memory that others walking in the sunshine should be softened as they thought of me. — Charles Dickens

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky. — Upton Sinclair

As a star you never know when people are really serious. — Dirk Nowitzki

The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love — Helen Shucman

The thinking or figurate conception which has before it only a specific, determinate being must be referred back to the [ ... ] beginning of the science made by Parmenides who purified and elevated his own figurate conception, and so, too, that of posterity, to pure thought, to being as such and thereby created the element of the science. What is the first in the science had of necessity to show itself historically as the first. And we must regard the Eleatic One or being as the first step in the knowledge of thought. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us? — Leonard Ravenhill

The older you get the more you live in the past — Walter Mosley

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. — Gaius Iulius Caesar