Anaxagoras on infinite
Anaxagoras17 quotes“All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.”
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras 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.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras 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.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras 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.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras 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.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras 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.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras In everything, there is a share of everything.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
AnaxagorasAnaxagoras Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
Henry JamesHenry James I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
ShakiraShakira I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
E. B. WhiteE. B. White The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
Primo LeviPrimo Levi I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Wherein they fancy intersperses Long avenues of universes, While Klein and Clifford fill the void With one finite, unbounded homoloid, And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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