Anaxagoras

Philosopher Ancient Greece 500 – 428

Proposed mind as the ordering principle of the universe and matter.

392 quotes

"Adventure expands the human experience."
Adventure
"Imagination creates possibility itself."
Imagination
"Technology amplifies human potential."
Technology
"History repeats but never identically."
History
"Philosophy questions all assumptions."
Philosophy
"Politics shapes human destiny."
Politics
"War is the failure of wisdom."
War
"Motivation arises from purpose."
Motivation
"Inspiration is earned through effort."
Inspiration
"Relationships are mirrors of the self."
Relationships
"Solitude cultivates inner strength."
Solitude
"The greatest thing in human life is to have discovered the truth."
Truth
"Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen."
Wisdom
"Everything has a natural explanation; the moon is not a god."
Science
"The seed of every fruit is a tree in miniature."
Nature
"Air and aether are the divine principles of all things."
Philosophy
"In the beginning, all things were together, infinite in number and minuteness."
Knowledge
"We see in order to understand, not merely to look."
Wisdom
"The infinitely small is as infinite as the infinitely great."
Science
"Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is unmixed with anything."
Philosophy
"Even the smallest portion of matter contains all substances."
Nature
"To live well, one must understand the nature of all things."
Life
"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of human endeavors."
Education
"We must look beyond what the eye presents to us."
Wisdom
"Matter itself is eternal; nothing truly comes to be or passes away."
Truth
"The mind directs all things toward order and beauty."
Art
"In understanding the cosmos, we understand ourselves."
Knowledge
"The sun is not divine, but a burning mass of stone."
Science
"All change is merely the rearrangement of eternal matter."
Change
"The universe is governed by reason, not by the whims of gods."
Philosophy