Democritus Quotes

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

The wise man’s home is the universe.

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.