Anaxagoras of Clazomenae

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
– Anaxagoras

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.
– Anaxagoras

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
– Anaxagoras

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

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.
– Anaxagoras

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

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.
– Anaxagoras

The seed of everything is in everything else.
– Anaxagoras

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
– Anaxagoras

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

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.
– Anaxagoras