Anaxagoras Quotes

Who is Anaxagoras?

Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. That means he philosophized before it was cool. Eat that, Socrates!

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Best Quotes by Anaxagoras

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

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

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

“The seed of everything is in everything else.”

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

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“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”


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