Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Anaxagoras

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Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae at a time when Asia Minor was under the control of the Persian Empire, Anaxagoras came to Athens. According to Diogenes Laërtius and Plutarch, in later life he was charged with impiety and went into exile in Lampsacus; the charges may have been political, owing to his association with Pericles, if they were not fabricated by later ancient biographers.

Greek - Philosopher | 500 BC - 428 BC
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. — © Anaxagoras
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
The seed of everything is in everything else.
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.
Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
In everything, there is a share of everything
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
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.
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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.
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.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
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.
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.
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 sun provides the moon with its brightness. — © Anaxagoras
The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
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 things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
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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