The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
More Lucretius Quotes
-
-
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUS -
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUS -
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUS -
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUS -
There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUS -
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUS -
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUS -
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUS -
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LUCRETIUS -
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUS -
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS -
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUS -
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUS -
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LUCRETIUS -
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUS -
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUS -
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUS -
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUS -
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS -
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUS -
How many evils have flowed from religion.
LUCRETIUS -
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
LUCRETIUS -
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUS -
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUS -
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUS -
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUS