Anaxagorás citáty

„Pre slabosť svojich zmyslov nie sme schopní poznať pravdu.“

„Človek je jediný živočích, ktorý musí pracovať, lebo má ruky.“

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Zdroj: [EXLEY, Helen.: Cesty múdrosti. Bratislava: Slovart, 2006 ISBN 80-8085-143-3]

„Všetko je vo všetkom.“

„Cieľom života je pozorovanie a z neho vznikajúca sloboda.“

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„Keď mu ktosi oznámil, že mu zomrel syn, odpovedal celkom pokojne: »Vedel som, že som splodil smrteľného.«“

„Zostup do podsvetia je rovnaký z každého miesta.“

„Nad všetkým, čo má vôľu, vládne rozum.“

Anaxagorás Citáty na tému nerozum

„Nič sa nedá vedieť, nič sa nedá naučiť, nič nie je isté, naše zmysly sú obmedzené, rozum slabý a náš život krátky.“

„Rozum je vo všetkých živých tvoroch, väčších i menších, šľachetnejších i nepatrnejších.“

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

Anaxagorás: Citáty v angličtine

“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.