Anaxagoras Quotes

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

Mind is god and god is Mind

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

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

The seed of everything is in everything else.

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

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

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.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

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

In everything, there is a share of everything

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.

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