Quote

Truths kindle light for truths.

Lucretius

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Kindle
Kindles
Truths
Light

More quotes by Lucretius

Image
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
Lucretius
Image
There can be no centre in infinity.
Lucretius
Image
But centaurs never existed there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.
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
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
Lucretius
Image
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
Lucretius
Image
So much wrong could religion induce.
Lucretius
Image
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.
Lucretius
Image
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
Lucretius
Image
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Lucretius
Image
And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.
Lucretius
Image
...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.
Lucretius
Image
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
Lucretius
Image
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
Lucretius
Image
These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
Lucretius
Image
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
Lucretius
Image
All life is a struggle in the dark.
Lucretius
Image
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
Lucretius
Image
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
Lucretius
Image
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?
Lucretius