Anaxagoras Quotes

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

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 but a glimpse of what is hidden.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

In everything, there is a share of everything

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.

The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

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.

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.

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.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

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 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.