"The Sun is a mass of fiery stone,……" — Anaxagoras
"The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece."
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18 Quotes by Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras has 18 quotes on this site.
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
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And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be…
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is…
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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…
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot…
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In everything, there is a share of everything
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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…
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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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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and…
— Fisher Ames
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These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your…
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Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I look at Willow and she's so naughty and fiery, and I'm not going to take any of her fierceness…
— Pink
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If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more…
— Charles Kingsley
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From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether…
— Tycho Brahe
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The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like…
— Tycho Brahe
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I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than…
— Margaret Fuller
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An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery…
— E. O. Wilson
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