Democritus Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

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

  Democritus

  Motivational, Philosophy, Science

  Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.

• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Truth, Real

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

• We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

  Democritus

  Lying, Science, Reality

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

  Democritus

  Sweet, Reality, Color

• We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Reality, Thinking

• We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.

  Democritus

  Reality, Body, Flow

  "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. 142), 1948.

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