Anaxagoras

Philosopher

Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who introduced the concept of nous (mind) as an ordering principle in the cosmos. He helped bring Ionian natural philosophy to Athens and influenced later classical thought.

Quotes by Anaxagoras

And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all things would be in everything; nor can they be separate, but all things have a portion of everything. Since there cannot be a smallest, nothing can be separated or come to be by itself, but as in the beginning now too all things are together. But in all things there are many things, equal in amount, both in the larger and the smaller of the things being separated off.
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And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all things would be in everything; nor can they be separate, but all things have a portion of everything. Since there cannot be a smallest, nothing can be separated or come to be by itself, but as in the beginning now too all things are together. But in all things there are many things, equal in amount, both in the larger and the smaller of the things being separated off.
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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The descent to Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
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