Anaxagoras Quotes

#1. To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

George Henry Lewes

#2. Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place.

Diogenes Laertius

#3. Anaxagoras wrote, It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.

Matthew B. Crawford

#4. Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

Aristotle.

#5. Here there is left a tenuous subterfuge, 875 which Anaxagoras seizes: think of things as mixtures of everything, all concealed but one that shows - the one that's mixed in largest measure and close to the surface and placed right at the top.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#6. Anaxagoras' belief that lying on the right side during sex would produce a boy was so influential that centuries later some French aristocrats had their left testicles amputated.

Matt Ridley

#7. When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

Plutarch

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

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

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#10. The seed of everything is in everything else.

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#11. The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating

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#12. 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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#13. I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

Manny Pacquiao

#14. A ... reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

Steven Pinker

#15. Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

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#16. 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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#17. 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.

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#18. 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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#19. Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

Sam Harris

#20. You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Elizabeth Warren

#21. Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

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

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#23. The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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

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#25. Dream of dreamers!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

Jean M. Auel

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

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#28. Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.

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#29. The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

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#30. I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

Leonard Cohen

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

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#32. The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

George Bancroft

#33. I failed the audition to get into drama school.

Peter Capaldi

#34. I get pretty grumpy about TV.

Ian McKellen

#35. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#36. When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.

Joshua Homme

#37. 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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#38. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#39. Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.

Adam Smith

#40. 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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#41. In everything, there is a share of everything

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#42. 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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#43. Mind is god and god is Mind

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