Anaxagoras

Philosopher Ancient Greece 500 – 428

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

392 quotes

"Knowledge of the particular reveals knowledge of the universal."
Knowledge
"The natural world obeys laws that can be understood."
Science
"The mind that seeks truth seeks godhood."
Wisdom
"All creation is merely the ordering of the pre-existent."
Change
"In understanding we find freedom; in ignorance we find slavery."
Freedom
"The universe speaks to those who listen with both ear and mind."
Inspiration
"The rational investigation of nature is humanity's highest calling."
Education
"What is eternal cannot be born and cannot die."
Truth
"The mind moves unmoved through all things."
Philosophy
"In every part of creation lies the design of the whole."
Nature
"To seek truth is to honor the universe that made us."
Gratitude
"The infinite divisibility of matter speaks to infinite possibility."
Creativity
"Understanding the cosmos is understanding our own nature."
Wisdom
"All order comes from mind arranging the pre-existent."
Knowledge
"The universe is not a mystery but a revelation to reason."
Truth
"In each moment lies the eternal."
Time
"The mind separates itself by knowing itself."
Philosophy
"The greatest thing is mind, which orders all things and pervades all things."
Philosophy
"Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen."
Wisdom
"Everything has a natural explanation; the supernatural is simply the natural not yet understood."
Science
"In everything there is a mixture of everything."
Nature
"Mind is the cause of all motion and change in the world."
Change
"The seeds of all things are mixed together in the beginning."
Knowledge
"What appears to change is merely the rearrangement of the eternal."
Truth
"The small is as boundless as the large in its complexity."
Wisdom
"Understanding nature requires observation and reason, not superstition."
Science
"All things contain something of everything else."
Philosophy
"The pursuit of knowledge frees the mind from ignorance."
Education
"To see truly, one must look beyond the surface of things."
"The universe operates according to natural laws, not divine whim."
Truth