The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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.

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

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.

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

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.

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