Anaxagoras Quotes

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• Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
• The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
• The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
• 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…
• The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from…
• All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.
• Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
• In everything, there is a share of everything
• 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 together and dissociated…
• Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
• It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
• All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
• The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
• The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and…
• The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
• Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease…
• There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
• The seed of everything is in everything else.

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