In everything, there is a share of everything.
ANAXAGORASThe sun provides the moon with its brightness.
More Anaxagoras Quotes
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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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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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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
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All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
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The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
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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.
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
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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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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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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.
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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.
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The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
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