Anaxagoras Quotes

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

I think, therefore I am.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Being that can be understood is language.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.