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And Parmenides also expresses himself in the same way:
For as at each time the much-bent limbs are composed,
So is the mind of men; for in each and all men
'Tis one thing thinks-the substance of their limbs:
For that of which there is more is thought.
A saying of Anaxagoras to some of his friends is also
related,-that things would be for them such as they supposed them to
be. And they say that Homer also evidently had this opinion, because
he made Hector, when he was unconscious from the blow, lie 'thinking
other thoughts',-which implies that even those who are bereft of
thought have thoughts, though not the same thoughts. Evidently,
then, if both are forms of knowledge, the real things also are at
the same time 'both so and not so'. And it is in this direction that
the consequences are most difficult. For if those who have seen most
of such truth as is possible for us (and these are those who seek
and love it most)-if these have such opinions and express these
views about the truth, is it not natural that beginners in
philosophy should lose heart? For to seek the truth would be to follow
flying game.
But the reason why these thinkers held this opinion is that
while they were inquiring into the truth of that which is, they
thought, 'that which is' was identical with the sensible world; in
this, however, there is largely present the nature of the
indeterminate-of that which exists in the peculiar sense which we have
explained; and therefore, while they speak plausibly, they do not
say what is true (for it is fitting to put the matter so rather than
as Epicharmus put it against Xenophanes)
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