We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSThe drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUSLook at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSContinual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSIf 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.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSNo single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
LUCRETIUSWhenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
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