Natural Explanation Quotes by Anaxagoras

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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.…
• The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded…
• All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all…
• 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…
• 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.

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