Anaxagoras quotes

The descent to Hades is the same from every place. (Anaxagoras)
The sun provides the moon with its brightness. View quote
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All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite. View quote
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Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate. View quote
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Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. ... What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does. ... For it is the finest of all things and the purest. View quote
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. View quote
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Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden. View quote
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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me. View quote
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. View quote
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The Greeks follow a wrong usage in speaking of coming into being and passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is mingling and separation of things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being mixture, and passing away separation. View quote
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And since these things are so, we must suppose that there are contained many things and of all sorts in the things that are uniting, seeds of all things, with all sorts of shapes and colours and savours. (Anaxagoras)
Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself. View quote
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In everything, there is a share of everything. View quote
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