Quote

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

Democritus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Democritus
Mathematician
Philosopher
Democritos
Democritus of Abdera
Laughing Philosopher
Color
Convention
Alone
Conventions
Reality
Atoms
Void
Bitter
Exists
Exist
Sweet

More quotes by Democritus

Image
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
Democritus
Image
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Democritus
Image
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
Democritus
Image
Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Democritus
Image
The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
Democritus
Image
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus
Image
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
Democritus
Image
I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.
Democritus
Image
The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.
Democritus
Image
In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus
Image
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other for envy creates the beginning of strife.
Democritus
Image
Word is a shadow of a deed.
Democritus
Image
According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.
Democritus
Image
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
Democritus
Image
The word is the shadow of the deed.
Democritus
Image
Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
Democritus
Image
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.
Democritus
Image
Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
Democritus
Image
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
Image
Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus