AnaxagorasThinkers

Appearance is a glimpse of the unseen.

Becoming 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 only the poor are forbidden to do.

Matter 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 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 is not a God but a great rock and the sun a hot rock. Everything has a natural explanation.

Private property is the cause of much strife in man. If those two words, 'mine' and 'thine', were taken away, men would live exceedingly quiet.

Relativity is an infinite measuring stick. There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

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

The Star is a result of the forces of rotation of the earth and the red hot masses of stones which were torn away from it and thrown into the ether.