Atomism

Democritus held that the world consists of indivisible atoms and void, and that every quality arises from their arrangement and motion.

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Completed atomism: nothing exists but atoms and void, all else is convention.

Taught in the Garden that pleasure is tranquillity, and used atomism to banish fear of the gods and of death.

Set out Epicurean atomism in over seven thousand lines of Latin verse; On the Nature of Things is antiquity's greatest philosophical poem.