It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
- Anaxagoras
More Quotes By Anaxagoras
- Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
- Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
- There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller...
- All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with...
- Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun...
- Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
- The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
- The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes,...
- In everything, there is a share of everything
- The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes...
- Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some...
- All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
- The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
- Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it...
- The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
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