The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

- Anaxagoras

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

- Anaxagoras

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

- Anaxagoras

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the …

- 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

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

- Anaxagoras

In everything, there is a share of everything

- 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 f…

- Anaxagoras

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

- Anaxagoras