24 Quotes by Anaxagoras


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    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.

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    There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

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    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.

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    In everything, there is a share of everything.

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