Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoraswas a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first to bring philosophy to Athens. According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch, in later life he was charged with impiety and went into exile in Lampsacus; the charges may have been political, owing to his association with Pericles, if they were not fabricated by later ancient biographers...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
Anaxagoras quotes about
mathematics stills smallest
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
glimpse appearance
Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
philosophical share
In everything, there is a share of everything
taken men two
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
moon sun brightness
The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
science atoms impossible
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.
moon heaven sun
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
lost lost-me athenians
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
god great hot moon natural
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
The seed of everything is in everything else.