Democritus
c. 460-370 BCE
c. 460-370 BCE
| The Greek mind analyzes: analysis is the instrument for it to know anything. The Hindu mind synthesizes: analysis is not the method. One is not to divide into parts, but to look for the whole in every part. The Hindu mind is always looking for the whole in the part. The Greek mind, in Democritus, comes to atoms, because if you go on analyzing, then the atom becomes the reality – the last particle which cannot be divided. The Hindu mind searches to the Brahman – to the Absolute. If you go on synthesizing, then ultimately the absolute, the whole, is reached. If you go on dividing, then the last particle – the last division of a particle – is the atom. If you go on adding, then there is the Brahman, the Ultimate, the Absolute... --Osho The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol. 2, ch. 16 |
Greek Δημόκριτος
Greek materialist philosopher, scientist, astronomer, ...
lived in pre-Socrates Greece
famous for developing theory of the smallest particle in
existence, which he called the "atoma", from where the
English word "atom" derives.
Greek materialist philosopher, scientist, astronomer, ...
lived in pre-Socrates Greece
famous for developing theory of the smallest particle in
existence, which he called the "atoma", from where the
English word "atom" derives.
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