The single known work by Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, only

fragments of which survive, containing the first sustained argument in

the history of philosophy. In it, Parmenides prescribes two views of
reality. In "the way of truth" (a part of the poem), he explains how all
reality is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform,
and necessary. In "the way of opinion", Parmenides explains the world
of appearances, in which one's sensory faculties lead to conceptions
which are false and deceitful, yet he does offer a cosmology.

Parmenides' philosophy has been explained with the slogan "whatever

is is, and what is not cannot be". He is also credited with the phrase out
of nothing nothing comes. He argues that "A is not" can never be
thought or said truthfully, and thus despite appearances everything
exists as one, giant, unchanging thing. This is generally considered one
of the first digressions into the philosophical concept of being, and has
been contrasted with Heraclitus's statement that "No man ever steps
into the same river twice" as one of the first digressions into the
philosophical concept of becoming. Scholars have generally believed
that either Parmenides was responding to Heraclitus, or Heraclitus to
Parmenides.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING AND BECOMING:

BEING: 1) Unmoving 2) Is/ to be 3) Allowed 4) Path which is to
be taken 5) Indefinable 6) A thought only gasped through
reasons 7) Knowable 8) Rationalist approach
BECOMING: 1) Moving 2) Is not/ not to be 3) Not allowed 4)
Path not to be taken 5) Definable 6) Unthinkable 7) Unknown
8) Irrational approach
BEING: According to Parmenides, the senses are entirely
deceptive, and reason alone can lead us to truth. The nature of
the world, then, can only be gotten at through a rational
inquiry, according to Parmenides, there are only two logically
coherent possibilities: either you begin your inquiry exists or
you begin with the premise that the subject of your inquiry
exists or you begin with the premise that it does not exist.
BECOMING: According to Parmenides, is utterly meaningless. It
is, therefore, not a real possibility at all. Parmenides bases this
claim regarding the path of ‘it is not’ on the assertion that,
“that which is there to be thought or spoken of must be”. What
he seems to be getting at here is an idea that has had
extraordinary pull for philosophers through contemporary
times one cannot possibly refer to what is not there to refer to.