Quote by Anaximander: “Things give justice and make reparation to one another for their injustice.”

Anaximander believed in a cosmic justice, where natural processes correct imbalances and restore equilibrium over time. This suggests that the universe itself has a self-regulating mechanism, ensuring that all actions and states eventually lead to a compensatory reaction, maintaining cosmic order and fairness.

This fragment reflects early Greek philosophical attempts to imbue the natural world with moral principles, seeing cosmic processes as embodying a form of justice. It implies a rational and orderly universe that naturally rights its own wrongs.

Greek philosopher from Miletus who lived approximately 610–546 BCE, a student of Thales. He is known for developing the concept of the apeiron — an indefinite, boundless source of all things — and for producing one of the earliest known maps of the world. Only a single fragment of his writing survives, quoted by later philosophers.