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From 1 of my fave Shakespearean plays. The Bard was familiar w/ Democritus of Abdera 🏛️: Below, "2ème étage".😉
January 21, 2026 at 1:20 AM
physics.bsky.social
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

- Democritus
January 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
philosophybits.com
“In reality we know nothing, for truth is in the depths.”

— Democritus, Fragments, B117
January 17, 2026 at 2:09 AM
jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
Roo Zine 'Narnia' (2014) -- High Line Park, Gansevoort Street, Manhattan, NYC

'Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul' -- Democritus

#HumansOfBlueSky ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#Photography #Portraiture
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
portrait of a young indian-american female with her hair up, wearing a fur coat and large chunky jewelry in strong winter light
January 12, 2026 at 2:06 AM
theeinzelganger.bsky.social
Childfree philosopher

#einzelgänger #einzelganger #philosopher #philosophy #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #dailyquotes #thoughts #thoughtoftheday #democritus #childfree #lifeadvice
January 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
..near Darmstadt, Germany: where Johann Dippel was born.

He obtained degrees from University of Giessen under the Latinized title 'Franckensteina' ("of Castle Frankenstein") & began publishing theological works under the pen-name "Christianus Demócritus".

Then things got dark.
Woodcut or ink illustration of a man with curly hair or a wig. Johann Konrad Dippel Christianus Democritus
January 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
soccurt.bsky.social
Marx did his dissertation on Democritus and Epicurus, so let's travel back and add that to their work too.
January 5, 2026 at 3:34 AM
mauritshuismus.bsky.social
Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_705.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
The Utrecht painter Johannes Moreelse worked for a few years in Rome, where he was influenced by the paintings of Caravaggio. He painted scenes in the style of Caravaggio, with unidealised half-length figures and big contrasts between light and dark. The grinning man in this painting represents Democritus, the laughing philosopher. He is laughing at the vanity of mankind and the transience of the world. Democritus forms a pair with Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher. Moreelse made several versions of the two philosophers.
January 3, 2026 at 10:08 AM
opfuchs.gay
Democritus and Heraclitus, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
December 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
philosophybits.com
“If you do not desire many things, a little will seem much to you; for small desires make poverty as strong as wealth.”

— Democritus, Fragments, B284
December 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
louisevans.bsky.social
have you read QUANTUM COMPUTING SINCE DEMOCRITUS?
December 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
descarteslab.bsky.social
another fascinating podcast on #premodern #atomism ... the interaction between corpuscular philosophy and living nature still remains a huge point in seventeenth-century understanding of nature #seventeenthcentury #Democritus
histphilosophy.bsky.social Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · Dec 14
New podcast for you today: the revival of atomism in the 17th century! We look especially at Gassendi and Basso.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom...

#philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast
Frontispiece from a work by Basso
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
sentantiq.bsky.social
Seasonal reminder

“A life without parties is a long journey without inns.”

βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος.
#Democritus
December 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
deepwatermike.bsky.social
I had a joke about Democritus, but it takes a bit of a swerve.
appuhn.bsky.social Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · Dec 8
I had lots of jokes about the Thales, but the punchline was always "Water!!"
deepwatermike.bsky.social Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it. @deepwatermike.bsky.social · Dec 8
I had a joke about Heraclitus, but it never comes out the same way twice.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
melvilliana.bsky.social
"Without knowing it herself, my wife was a female Democritus." #MelvilleMonday

The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
carolatack.bsky.social
A very exciting start to the month as the final contribution to the Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Political Thought arrived in my inbox - heading now to submission of a complete and formatted manuscript! Partial contents list as a teaser below:
Foreword: engaging with Greek political thought in the 21st century Introduction and overview: I Origins and beginnings 1 Before the Greeks: echoes of earlier societies’ thought on governance 2 Early Greek political thought in poetical texts: Hesiod, Theognis, lyric poets 3 Cosmology, order, and the political: the Presocratics 4 Political Thought in inscriptions, documents and other non-literary sources 5 The Politics of Political Theory in Athenian Drama II Classical Greek political thought 6 Model constitutions: the emergence and development of the politeia tradition and typologies of political arrangements 7 Early Democratic Thought: Democritus, Anonymus Iamblichi, and Protagoras 8 Political Thinking in Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon 9 Socrates between City and Self: The Apologies of Xenophon and Plato 10 The concept of partnership in Plato's Republic 11 Civic Friendship and Virtue in Plato's Republic 12 Plato, politics and epistemology: the Republic and other dialogues 13 Building a new model for kingship in Plato’s Statesman 14 Plato's Laws: envisioning a new society 15 Criticisms of Democracy in Plato's Gorgias and Republic 16 Aristotle on the Partnership in Living Well and Living Together 17 Aristotle: defining the citizen 18 Aristotle on Justice, Friendship and Proportionate Reciprocity 19 Virtue and Politics: Isocrates and Xenophon III Themes and contexts 20 Stasis, conflict and change in Greek political thinking 21 Mass participation in the polis: Ps-Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates, Plutarch 22 Citizenship and non-citizenship: status hierarchies in the polis 23 The Limits of Law: Nomos in Plato and Aristotle 24 Cities and their gods: religion in Greek political thought 25 Bad tyrants and good kings: single-person rule 26 Comparisons with others: Persia, Egypt and non-Greek societies in Greek political thought 27 Slavery and freedom as a political analogy 28 Sparta in Greek political thought: Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
lgiordano.bsky.social
Democritus https://www.wikiart.org/en/luca-giordano/democritus
Democritus
September 23, 2024 at 10:08 AM
3lue.bsky.social
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
By : Democritus
February 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
starshine.bsky.social
when you’re a silly little guy doing math and philosophy posts
Democritus leaning on a sphere laughing and pointing. He was the silliest of the Ancient Greek philosophers
September 13, 2023 at 12:26 AM
lgiordano.bsky.social
Democritus https://www.wikiart.org/en/luca-giordano/democritus-1674
Democritus
March 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
lgiordano.bsky.social
Democritus https://www.wikiart.org/en/luca-giordano/democritus-1674
Democritus
August 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
abuseofnotation.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
#heraclitus is probably the greatest philosopher ever, as he is involved in not one, but two of the greatest #philosophybeefs of all time, one with Heraclitus VS Parmenides and one with and Heraclitus VS Democritus #joke
February 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu
Ja en nee. Hij is het oneens met Democritus en Descartes dat alleen toevalig is ontstaan door samenklontering van materie. Het leven is zo afgestemd op de omgeving dat het niet toevallig ontstaan kan zijn...
November 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM