On cosmopolitanism

'Anaxagoras suggested that mind or nous was the moving principle of the universe and counseled his fellow citizens of Miletus to study the moon, sun and stars. When someone asked him, “Have you no concern with your native land?,” he replied, “I am greatly concerned with my native land” and pointed to the stars.'


From Simon Critchley's Why Badiou is a Rousseauist and why you should be too.