There can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils have flowed from religion.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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