Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy to Athens.
Born: 500 BC, Klazomenai, Turkey
Died: 428 BC, Lampsacus
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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.
Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large; but always something still smaller and something still larger.
The seed of everything is in everything else.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
In everything, there is a share of everything.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
