Anaxagorás citáty

„Lidské i zvířecí duše pocházejí z duše světa a jsou s ní téže povahy, to jest božské.“

„Člověk je ze všech živočichů nejrozumnější, ježto má ruce.“

„Věděl jsem, že jsem zplodil 'smrtelného'.“

„Sníh je sraženou vodou, voda je černá a sníh je tedy černý.“

„Žádná věc nevzniká a nezaniká, nýbrž ze jsoucích věcí se směšuje a rozlučuje…“

„Neboť ani u malého není nic nejmenší, nýbrž vždy je něco menšího, ježto jsoucí nemůže nebýti. Ale také nad veliké je vždy něco většího…“

„Člověk je jediný živočich, který musí pracovat, protože má ruce.“

“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”

“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of pre-existent things: so that all-becoming might more correctly be called becoming-mixed, and all corruption, becoming-separate.”

“The Greeks follow a wrong usage in speaking of coming into being and passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is mingling and separation of things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being mixture, and passing away separation.”

“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”

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

“Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. … What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does. … For it is the finest of all things and the purest.”