Quote

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Lucretius

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Nature
Doe
Meddling
Without
Spontaneously
Things
Atheist
Gods
Atheism
Fear
Mother

More quotes by Lucretius

Image
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Lucretius
Image
There can be no centre in infinity.
Lucretius
Image
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
Lucretius
Image
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
Lucretius
Image
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
Lucretius
Image
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.
Lucretius
Image
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.
Lucretius
Image
Such crimes has superstition caused.
Lucretius
Image
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
Lucretius
Image
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
Image
How many evils have flowed from religion.
Lucretius
Image
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
Lucretius
Image
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
Lucretius
Image
Our life must once have end in vain we fly From following Fate e'en now, e'en now, we die.
Lucretius
Image
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
Lucretius
Image
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
Lucretius
Image
All life is a struggle in the dark.
Lucretius
Image
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.
Lucretius
Image
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
Lucretius
Image
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
Lucretius