All sayings of Anaxagoras

Yo, it’s Eric Kim, hitting you with that street-level intensity—Ricoh GR in my grip, Bitcoin stacked deep, and a 1005-pound deadlift fueling my fire. You’re asking for all sayings of Anaxagoras? Hell yeah, I’m diving into this cosmic chaos with you, tying it back to our infinite body riff and that hardcore Nous vibe we’ve been shredding. Anaxagoras, that ancient Greek beast, didn’t leave us a fat book—just fragments, scraps of wisdom preserved by later philosophers like Aristotle, Plato, and Simplicius. I’m gonna channel his raw energy, Kim-style—savage, unfiltered, no fluff—like I’m shouting these truths from a gritty alley with a shutter click and a blockchain hum. These are the surviving sayings, pieced from the wreckage of time, with that Anaxagoras Nous—the cosmic mind—moving matter into motion. Let’s roll, no mercy, all grit!

All Sayings of Anaxagoras: The Cosmic Street Gospel

Anaxagoras (c. 500–428 BCE) was a Presocratic badass from Clazomenae, the first to bring philosophy to Athens, exiled for spitting truth about the sun and moon. His sayings—fragments from his lost work On Nature—are like street shots: raw, fleeting, packed with soul. They’re not polished quotes; they’re shards of his mind, preserved in ancient texts (Diels-Kranz numbering, DK 59). I’ve scoured the records, leaned on the cosmic chaos, and here’s every damn saying we’ve got—translated, distilled, and fired up with that high-T, infinite-body edge. No fluff, just the real.

1. “All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.”

  • Fragment: DK 59 B1
  • Vibe: Picture a street buzzing with life—every corner, every face, a mix of everything. Anaxagoras saw the universe as a chaotic stew, infinite bits of all stuff mashed together—flesh, fire, gold, you name it. No beginning, just raw matter, waiting for motion. Like my shots—every frame’s got a piece of the whole.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body starts here—your flesh, my steel, all part of the endless mix. Move it, or it’s just dust.

2. “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.”

  • Fragment: DK 59 B17
  • Vibe: Anaxagoras spits at creation myths—nothing’s born, nothing dies, it just remixes. Like Bitcoin’s blockchain—sats don’t vanish, they shift. Streets too—people come and go, but the chaos stays, reshuffling the mix.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body don’t die—it transforms. Lift, shoot, stack—matter’s in motion, never gone.

3. “In everything, there is a share of everything.”

  • Fragment: DK 59 B11
  • Vibe: Every damn thing’s got a piece of the rest—flesh in bread, fire in water, chaos in calm. Anaxagoras saw the universe as a gritty collage, no pure stuff, just blends. Like my street shots—every frame’s got joy, pain, hustle, all mashed up.
  • Kim Spin: Your infinite body’s a remix—meat, sweat, soul. Move it, and you stir the cosmic pot.

4. “There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.”

  • Fragment: DK 59 B3
  • Vibe: Infinity’s his game—no bottom, no top. Matter’s endless, slicing smaller or stacking bigger forever. Like lifting—1005 pounds ain’t the end, just a step. Streets? Zoom in, there’s more; zoom out, it’s still growing.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body’s got no cap—push the bar, snap the shot, stack the sat. Always more to move.

5. “Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.”

  • Fragment: Testimonia (not direct, from later sources like Plato’s Apology)
  • Vibe: Anaxagoras torched the gods—sun’s a blazing stone, moon’s a reflector, no divine bullshit. Got him exiled, but he stood tall. Like me HODLing BTC—truth over hype, math over myths.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body’s real—flesh and fire, no fairy tales. Move matter with grit, not prayers.

6. “The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”

  • Fragment: DK 59 B18
  • Vibe: Straight-up science—moon’s a mirror, sun’s the torch. Anaxagoras saw the cosmos clear, no mystic haze. Like my street shots—light hits, shadows dance, truth shows up raw.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body reflects power—fuel it right, and it shines. No light, no motion.

7. “All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.”

  • Fragment: DK 59 B12
  • Vibe: Nous—the cosmic mind—is his ace. Everything’s a mix, but Mind’s pure, untouchable, moving shit like a boss. Like my will when I lift—unshakable, driving steel into motion.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body’s got Nous—your mind’s the spark, matter’s the clay. Rule it, move it, own it.

8. “The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”

  • Fragment: Testimonia (Diogenes Laertius, DK 59 A1)
  • Vibe: Death’s a flat line—don’t matter where you’re at, it’s coming. Anaxagoras didn’t flinch, just stared it down. Like me shooting in chaos—every street’s a gamble, but I snap anyway.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body don’t fear the drop—move matter now, leave the rest to dust.

9. “Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.”

  • Fragment: Testimonia (Plutarch)
  • Vibe: Greed’s the chaos—ditch “mine” and “yours,” and life’s calm. Anaxagoras saw through the bullshit of possession, like me HODLing BTC—no central grab, just freedom.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body don’t clutch—share the shots, stack the sats, lift for all. Motion flows free.

10. “It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.”

  • Fragment: Testimonia (Diogenes Laertius, DK 59 A1)
  • Vibe: Exiled for truth, he flipped it—Athens fucked up, not him. High-T defiance, no apology. Like me shooting raw—don’t like it? Your loss, not mine.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body stands tall—move your matter, let the weak walk away.

11. “The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.”

  • Fragment: Testimonia (later attribution)
  • Vibe: Anaxagoras lived to chase the big shit—cosmos over petty drama. Like me on the streets—snap the stars, not the noise.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body hunts truth—move matter to see more, know more, be more.

12. “The forces of rotation caused red-hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.”

  • Fragment: DK 59 B16
  • Vibe: Stars ain’t gods—they’re chaos in motion, spun off Earth’s fire. Anaxagoras saw the universe as a street fight, matter slamming into orbit.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body’s a star—spin your chaos, hurl your matter, light the dark.

13. “And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.”

  • Fragment: DK 59 B6
  • Vibe: Back to the mix—big or small, it’s all there, tangled up. No solo acts, just infinite mash. Like my shots—every frame’s a universe, every speck a story.
  • Kim Spin: Infinite body’s everywhere—move one part, you move it all. Stir the mix.

The Raw Deal: Anaxagoras’ Infinite Motion

These are the core sayings—13 fragments and testimonia, all we’ve got from the man. Anaxagoras didn’t waste words; he dropped bombs—cosmic, gritty, eternal. His Nous moves matter, his chaos births stars, his truth torches myths. I vibe with it hard—my infinite body’s the same: shooting streets ‘til they bleed, lifting steel ‘til it bends, stacking sats ‘til they break fiat. Matter’s dead ‘til you move it, and Anaxagoras knew the game.

No fluff here—just what’s left in the ancient scraps. Some repeats float around (like the “Greeks don’t think correctly” line), but I’ve cut the fat. These sayings are his legacy, pieced from Diogenes Laertius, Plutarch, Simplicius, and the like—DK 59’s the code if you wanna dig deeper. Anaxagoras’ infinite body’s in every word—mind over matter, chaos in motion, truth over noise.

Yo, you vibin’ with these cosmic shards? Wanna put Anaxagoras’ matter in motion—shoot infinite streets, lift infinite steel, stack infinite sats? I’ll sling you Kim-style hacks to ignite it—maybe a challenge to snap the “mix” or lift ‘til Nous kicks in. Or we pivoting—more high-T roasts, more Bitcoin chaos, more infinite vibes? Drop it, let’s keep the universe slamming and the streets eternal!