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.“

reakce na zprávu o smrti jeho syna

„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…“

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

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

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Anaxagorás: Citáty anglicky

“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”

Frag. B 1, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.

“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.”

Fragment in Plutarch De facie in orbe lunae, 929b, as quoted in The Riverside Dictionary of Biography (2005), p. 23

“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.”

quoted in Heinrich Ritter, Tr. from German by Alexander James William Morrison, The History of Ancient Philosophy, Vol.1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pUgXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA284 (1838)

“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”

Frag. B 17, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.

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

Frag. B 4, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.

“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.”

Frag. B 12, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.