Quotes from Anaxagoras

The seed of everything is in everything else.

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

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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