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Single Idea 229

[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming ]

Full Idea

The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become.

Gist of Idea

The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 155d)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.295

Related Idea

Idea 453 Reality is symmetrical and balanced, like a sphere, with no reason to be greater one way rather than another [Parmenides]