Hippolytus of Rome - Matter Quotes

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Anaxagoras... said that the beginning of the universe was mind and matter, mind being the creator and matter that which came into being.

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But Epicurus held an opinion almost the opposite of all others. He supposed that the beginnings of the universals were atoms and a void; that the void was as it were the place of the things that will be; but that the atoms were matter, from which all things are.

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