Anaxagoras

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

— Anaxagoras

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

— Anaxagoras

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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In everything, there is a share of everything

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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

— Anaxagoras

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

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All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all…

— Anaxagoras

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

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There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

— Anaxagoras

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

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The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into…

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Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more…

— Anaxagoras

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything.…

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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded…

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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…

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The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed…

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Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what…

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“And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all things would…

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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

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The seed of everything is in everything else.

— Anaxagoras