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Appearance (n.) is a glimpse of the unseen.
Appearance (n.) are a glimpse of the nonvisible.
Becoming (n.) is wrongheaded. All is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things... so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.
Begging (n.) only the poor are forbidden to do.
Bereavement (n.) afflicts most those who never thought of it: told his son had died, Anaxagoras said only, \"I knew that my son was mortal.\"
Generation (n.) is extraction rather than synthesis: every being could be the ore from which every other will be drawn.
Life (n.) is worth living, Anaxagoras answered, 'because it allows me to view the heavens and the whole order of the cosmos.'
Life (n.) is worth choosing, said Anaxagoras, "for the sake of viewing the heavens and the whole order of the universe."
Matter (n.) is contrasted with mind in that while mind is entirely independent form all else, matter is inextricably linked with all else. In the case of matter, in everything there is a share of everything.
Mind (n.) is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself while all other things have a portion of everything.
The Moon (n.) is not a God but a great rock and the sun a hot rock. Everything has a natural explanation.
Motion (n.) is truth, not semblance — proved against Parmenides by the indubitable succession of ideas in our own thinking.