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.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that everything is interconnected and composed of elements from all things.
Anaxagoras' quote reflects the philosophical idea of unity in diversity, emphasizing that all entities in existence are interrelated and share fundamental components. It suggests that every aspect of reality contains a piece of everything else, reinforcing the notion that separation is an illusion and that existence is an intricate web of connections.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of community, this quote could be used to highlight how every individual contributes to the whole.
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
War should always be the absolute last resort.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
In Christian engagement, the goal is to win the person _x000D_ who is of the other worldview - not to destroy the person.
I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.
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