Anaxagoras famous quotes

05-15-2025

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
-- Anaxagoras

#Unseen #Glimpse #Appearance
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
-- Anaxagoras

#Taken #Men #Two
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
-- Anaxagoras

#Thinking #Greek #Passing Away
Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
-- Anaxagoras

#Glimpse #Appearance
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
-- Anaxagoras

#Death #Suicide #Descent
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.
-- Anaxagoras

#Life #Greek #Would Be
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.
-- Anaxagoras

#Greek #Might #Becoming
The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
-- Anaxagoras

#Moon #Brightness #Sun
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
-- Anaxagoras

#Mathematics #Smallest #Stills
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.
-- Anaxagoras

#Science #Atoms #Impossible
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
-- Anaxagoras

#Science #Stones #Littles
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.
-- Anaxagoras

#Stars #Science #Hot
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
-- Anaxagoras

#Moon #Heaven #Purpose
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
-- Anaxagoras

#Numbers #Together #Infinite
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
-- Anaxagoras

#Death #Dying #Descent
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

#Numbers #Would Be #Should
In everything, there is a share of everything
-- Anaxagoras

#Philosophical #Share
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
-- Anaxagoras

#God #Moon #Rocks
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.
-- Anaxagoras

#Self #Mind #Infinite
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
-- Anaxagoras

#Lost

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