Democritus Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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.

  Democritus

  Moving, Science, Fire

• To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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  Wise, Men, Good Man

  "History of Philosophy" by F. Uberweg, New York, vol. 1, (p. 71), 1871.

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

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  Wise, Men, Land

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.

• The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

  Democritus

  Wise, Men, Hands

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