More from Democritus
- Freeman (1948), p. 152
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Freeman (1948), p. 162Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Fragment B31 (preserved by Clement of Alexandria), tr. Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers (1948), p. 149
More about beauty
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
