Anaxagoras Quotes

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

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Doesn't becoming imply time?

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?