Anaxagoras Quotes

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

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.

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

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.