“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 4, quoted in John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy, (1920), Chapter 6.
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Anaxagoras 7
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“But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up a year,
And a sphere.”
Fable http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/fable.htm
1840s, Poems (1847)
“We are all a sort of camelions, that still take a tincture from things near us”
Sec. 67
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: We are all a sort of camelions, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.
“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 3
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true… we call it history.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.”
As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 35
Ch. 7.
As quoted in "Kieślowski's Many Colours" by Patrick Abrahamsson, in Oxford University Student newspaper (2 June 1995) — republished at Musicolog.com http://www.musicolog.com/kieslowski_manycolours.asp#.Vt_PAsdSj8s
Context: If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word "love" has the same meaning for everybody. Or "fear", or "suffering". We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.