24 Quotes by Anaxagoras

And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all things would be in everything; nor can they be separate, but all things have a portion of everything. Since there cannot be a smallest, nothing can be separated or come to be by itself, but as in the beginning now too all things are together. But in all things there are many things, equal in amount, both in the larger and the smaller of the things being separated off.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

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

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

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

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

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

The seed of everything is in everything else.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.