If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
More Lucretius Quotes
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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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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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