Parmenides Quotes

“Okay. He says there’s no death; it’s an illusion. Time is an illusion. Every instant
that comes into being never passes away. Anyhow—he says—it doesn’t really even come into being;
it was always there. The universe consists of concentric rings of reality; the greater the ring the more
it partakes of absolute reality. These concentric rings finally wind up as God; He’s the source of the
things, and they’re more real as they get nearer to him. It’s the principle of emanation, I guess. Evil is
simply a lesser reality, a ring farther from Him. It’s the lack of absolute reality, not the presence of an
evil deity. So there’s no dualism, no evil, no satan. Evil is an illusion like decay.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Matter is nonexistent except as something we see and experience as matter by our senses. Matter is only a manifestation of a Universal Mind. The primary quality of matter and all existence is not accessible directly or indirectly except by pure thought (intuition). All qualities, described by some major philosophers as primary and secondary qualities, I understand only as different modes of existence and relationships between the sensed or perceptible and different modes of perceptibility or perceptions (and senses) of the beings possessing these abilities. These qualities represent different levels (manifestations) of matter (existence and life) and do not disclose the actual nature either of matter or true primary quality, the underlying reality of all, which to me is only something I chose to call a Universal Mind. This Universal Mind, in some ways, may correspond to Plato’s (or Kant’s) noumenon, to Aristotle’s aether in a way, to Parmenides' Mind (Oneness), to Anaxagoras' nous (except that there were no things mixed up together before the mind or nous arranged them; instead the “things” are only potential or the transformed mind, manifestation of a mind), and to Plotinus’ ideas of a mind of this kind. Heidegger states that philosophy, since Plato, has neglected the idea and the Being itself and forgot to ask what it is.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE