Melissus of Samos Quote

For if there is earth and water and air and fire and iron and gold, and one living and another dead, and again black and white and all the other things that people say are real, if indeed there are these, and we see and hear correctly, each must be such as we first decided, and they cannot change or become different, but each is always as it is.


Fragments, 8. Translated by M. R. Wright


For if there is earth and water and air and fire and iron and gold, and one living and another dead, and again black and white and all the other...

For if there is earth and water and air and fire and iron and gold, and one living and another dead, and again black and white and all the other...

For if there is earth and water and air and fire and iron and gold, and one living and another dead, and again black and white and all the other...

For if there is earth and water and air and fire and iron and gold, and one living and another dead, and again black and white and all the other...