Anaxagoras (-500–-428 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
Frag. B 4, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.
“Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.”
— Thales
As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 35
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