Democritus Atomism Quotes & Sayings

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere. — William Hazlitt

America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his. — Arthur Goldberg

God is everywhere. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A purposeless life is a meaningless life — Sunday Adelaja

Christians - who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism - often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for "new" theologies, "new" ways of worship, and "new" music, being quite willing to toss out their entire "old-fashioned" Christian heritage. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Faith is found when one isn't looking for it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything. — William H. Macy

Once commonly called "atomism," the genealogy of atheism can be traced all the way back through the Enlightenment to Roman poets such as Lucretius and his poem De Rerum Natura, and behind that to Greek philosophers such as Epicurus and Democritus and their philosophy of atomism. It was precisely such a philosophy that contributed to the classical world a strong sense of fate and the futility of both life and human purpose. And it also provided the dark setting against which the brilliance of the hope of the good news of Jesus shone by contrast - as soon it will once again. — Os Guinness

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Be independent of the good opinion of other people. — Abraham H. Maslow

I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd. — Drake

And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning. — Lee Scott

Wonderful. What's the point of throwing a hissy fit without friends and family on hand to hear it?
-Amy Cahill — Gordon Korman

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard. — Stonewall Jackson

Aristotle had thought that atomism was wrong, and he rejected the views of the ancient Greek atomist Democritus. (The other atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, lived after Aristotle.) But Boyle thought that Aristotle was wrong, and so he rejected the alchemists' belief (based on Aristotle) that fire, earth, air, and water were the fundamental elements, and Aristotle's belief that each thing had a definite form. Instead, Boyle believed that everything was made of atoms - including fire, earth, air, and water - and that a thing's "form" was merely the result of how the atoms were put together. What — Benjamin Wiker