21 Quotes by Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras is an ancient Greek philosopher who was one of the first to introduce the concept of nous, or mind, as the governing principle of the universe. He believed that everything in the world was made up of infinitely small particles and that these particles were constantly moving and changing. He also thought that the mind had the power to control and direct these particles, thereby influencing the physical world. Anaxagoras was a highly influential thinker in his time and his ideas continue to be studied and debated today. (Bio)
Anaxagoras Quotes
The seed of everything is in everything else. (Meaning)
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.
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger. (Meaning)
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
In everything, there is a share of everything
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
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 from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
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 to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.
Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.
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 this is the origin of the stars.
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.
― Anaxagoras Quotes
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