Zeno of Elea Quotes

Zeno of Elea (/ˈziːnoʊ ... ˈɛliə/; Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης; c. 495 – c. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Magna Graecia and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic. He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound".

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.

Zeno of Elea
- Men
- Rain
- Desert
Beauty is the flower of chastity.

Zeno of Elea
- Beauty
- Flower
- Chastity

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.

Zeno of Elea
- Science
- Goal
- Half
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.

Zeno of Elea
- Science
- Race
- Example
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno of Elea
- Life
- Nature
- Success
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 Elea
- Writing
- Views
- Details
By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

Zeno of Elea
- Men
- Silence
- Imperfection
...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

Zeno of Elea
- Said
- Teaching
- Has Beens