Anaxagoras
quoted 7 times by 5 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Anaxagoras the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
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1 neutral 1 refuted 5 endorsedin the voice of Anaxagoras 4
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 3 endorsed 3 citations
Anaxagoras is quoted directly, introduced with 'Excellently Anaxagoras.'
" Excellently Anaxagoras, who, when he was dying at Lampsacus, and his friends asked whether he wished to be carried, if anything should happen, to his homeland Clazomenae, said:
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Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation
Anaxagoras's stated expectation is reported as an attributed view used as supporting authority
Anaxagoras again does not seem to have conceived the happy man as rich or powerful, since he says that he would not be surprised if he were to appear a strange sort of person in the eyes of the many;
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages
The passage explicitly reports Anaxagoras's doctrine and subjects it to extended critique.
Then Anaxagoras, who received his teaching from Anaximenes, was the first who held that the ordering and measure of all things was designed and brought about by the force and reason of an infinite mind.
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 endorsed 1 citation
Anaxagoras's words are presented as a direct quotation which the speaker explicitly says he will also speak.
But on behalf of myself and the likeness I will now say a word which Anaxagoras spoke, having lost a son:
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De Anima Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Anaxagoras's teaching about mind as first principle is reported and criticized for internal inconsistency.
For, having reasoned that the mind is the beginning of all things, and having hung the swinging-pole of the universe upon its axis, and affirmed it to be pure and simple and unmixable, he by this very title above all segregates it from any commingling with the soul, and yet elsewhere assigns it to the soul.
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