Anaximander quotes

Anaximander was an ancient Greek philosopher and a pre-Socratic thinker from Miletus. Known as one of the earliest cosmologists, he introduced the concept of the "apeiron" as the origin of all things. He made significant contributions to philosophy, astronomy, and geography. Here are 4 of his quotes:

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky. (Anaximander)

All things must in equity again decline into that whence they have their origin for they must give satisfaction and atonement for injustice each in the order of time.

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There cannot be a single, simple body which is infinite, either, as some hold, one distinct from the elements, which they then derive from it, nor without this qualification.

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There cannot be a single, simple body which is infinite, either, as some hold, one distinct from the elements, which they then derive from it, nor without this qualification. For there are some who make this (i.e. a body distinct from the elements) the infinite, and not air or water, in order that the other things may not be destroyed by their infinity. They are in opposition one to another - air is cold, water moist, and fire hot-and therefore, if any one of them were infinite, the rest would have ceased to be by this time. Accordingly they say that what is infinite is something other than the elements, and from it the elements arise.

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Occupation: Greek Philosopher
Born: 620 BC
Died: 547 BC
Quotes count: 4
Wikipedia: Anaximander

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