Anaxagoras of Clazomenae Quotes | Early Greek Philosopher

Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae at a time when Asia Minor was under the control of the Persian Empire.
Responding to the claims of Parmenides on the impossibility of change, Anaxagoras introduced the concept of Nous (Cosmic Mind) as an ordering force. He also gave several novel scientific accounts of natural phenomena, including the notion of panspermia, that life exists throughout the universe and could be distributed everywhere.

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Anaxagoras' quotes in this video:

“In everything, there is a share of everything”

“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.”

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

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

“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”

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

“Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.”

“The Greeks follow a wrong usage in speaking of coming into being and passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is mingling and separation of things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being mixture, and passing away separation.”

“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.”

“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”

“The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”

- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, early Greek Philosopher