"And since the portions of the great and……" — Anaxagoras
"And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything."
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18 Quotes by Anaxagoras
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
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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.
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All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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