Bits of Wisdom #5 : Anaxagoras

From the ancient till modern times, Greece has been the homeland for many important historical events and people who have marked the history of the country and have influenced the course of the world. People with talent, inspiration, and vision have set the grounds of modern civilization. Ancient thinkers words on life, success, courage and character hold true centuries later and can be just the pick-me-up we need, whatever the work day throws at us. The Ancient Greek philosophers used few words, 'quotes', to express pearls of wisdom that stand up today as guidelines for living wisely and compassionately.

ANAXAGORAS

Philosopher of the 4th century BC

“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock”

“The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating”

“Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away”

“Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself”

“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen”

“All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.”

“And since these things are so, we must suppose that there are contained many things and of all sorts in the things that are uniting, seeds of all things, with all sorts of shapes and colours and savours”