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- - - - Physical world
        
        Atoms attach to each other and form matter and objects
        
        Their interactions cause stuff to be created and destroyed
      - Spiritual world
        
        Made of soul atoms
        
        If you see/hear/touch something, this sense is a result of interactions between physical and soul atoms
        
        Therefore, what does not exist cannot exist
        
        Rational thinking is the proper way of understanding the world, perception is not.
  - - - humans shouldn't have superstitious fears
  - - - long term pleasure > short term pleasure (ex. drinking and eating excessively, which brings more pain)
- - - - Traveled to Egypt, Babylon, and possibly even India to advance his studies
        
        He traveled throughout ancient Greece as well, but later settled in his hometown of Abdera.
        
        Also taught by Leucippus, and had the original thought of the atom
        
        Said to have written 73 books in his time, none of which remain fully intact today
        
        Didn't believe in any said religion
        
        Died around 370BC,