And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that everything is interconnected and composed of elements from all things.
Anaxagoras' quote reflects the philosophical idea of unity in diversity, emphasizing that all entities in existence are interrelated and share fundamental components. It suggests that every aspect of reality contains a piece of everything else, reinforcing the notion that separation is an illusion and that existence is an intricate web of connections.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of community, this quote could be used to highlight how every individual contributes to the whole.
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.
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