Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
- Topic: Life
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More Quotes from Democritus
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Man is a universe in little.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
Do not feel certain of anything.
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.