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„Kraft und Schönheit sind der Jugend Güter, des Alters Blüte aber ist Besonnenheit.“
Fragment 294; zitiert nach Karl Jaspers: Die grossen Philosophen: Darstellungen und Fragmente, Nachlaß Bd. 1, hg. von Hans Saner, Piper, München 1981. S. 72
Demokrit Zitate und Sprüche
„Scheinbar ist Farbe, scheinbar Süßigkeit, scheinbar Bitterkeit: wirklich nur Atome und Leeres.“
Fragment 125 (gemäß Galenos von Pergamon); Übers. durch Hermann Diels: Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, griechisch und deutsch, Zweiter Band, 3. Aufl., Berlin 1912. S. 85 Internet Archive
„In Wirklichkeit erkennen wir nichts; denn die Wahrheit liegt in der Tiefe.“
Fragment 117
Original griech.: "ἐτεῆι δὲ οὐδὲν ἴδμεν· ἐν βυθῶι γὰρ ἡ ἀλήθεια"
Demokrit: Zitate auf Englisch
“Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
“It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
“And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”
Freeman (1948), p. 152 [Democr. "Fragment B 64" http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/philosophes/democrite/diels.htm ("Demokrates 29" in Stobaeus, Anthologium III, 4, 81)] <br class="br">Variante: There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. (trans. by Robert Drew Hicks 1925)
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“Man should know from this rule that he is cut off from truth.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
“The enmity of one's kindred is far more bitter than the enmity of strangers.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“One should emulate works and deeds of virtue, not arguments about it.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
