Anaximander (c. 610 – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey).
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Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all. Anaximander
Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction. Anaximander
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable. Anaximander
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. Anaximander
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited.
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. Anaximander
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.
Men first appeared as fish. When they were able to help themselves they took to land. Anaximander
Men first appeared as fish. When they were able to help themselves they took to land.
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
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.
What is infinite is something other than the elements, and from it the elements arise. Anaximander
What is infinite is something other than the elements, and from it the elements arise.
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. Anaximander
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.
