Democritus Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

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

  Democritus

  Science, Fruit, Chance

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

  Democritus

  Space, Firsts, Principles

  "Democritus", Vol. IX, 44 by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks, 1925.

• 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

• The wise man’s home is the universe.

  Democritus

  Wise, Home, Men

• Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

  Democritus

  Men, Littles, Microcosm

  "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. 150), 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

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin