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“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.”

Anaxagoras

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)

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“Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself.”

Anaxagoras

Frag. B 12, 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.”

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Frag. B12, in Jonathan Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy (1984), p. 190.

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