Zeno of Elea quotes
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“My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One”
-- Zeno of EleaSource : "A History of Philosophy". Book by Frederick Charles Copleston, Volume 1: "Greece and Rome From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus", 1953.
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“...but what has been said once can always be repeated.”
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“By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.”
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“The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.”
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“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”
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“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.”
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“The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”
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