Truths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUSIf 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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No 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.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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