Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Ends
Withstand
Reason
Ills
Would
Device
Men
Devices
Religions
Fixed
Knew
Unconquered
Strong
Seers

More quotes by Lucretius

Image
It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.
Lucretius
Image
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
Lucretius
Image
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
Lucretius
Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum Adde Heliconiadum comites quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]
Lucretius
Image
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
Lucretius
Image
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
Lucretius
Image
How many evils have flowed from religion.
Lucretius
Image
...Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
Lucretius
Image
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
Lucretius
Image
Truths kindle light for truths.
Lucretius
Image
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
Lucretius
Image
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
Lucretius
Image
Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Forever, nor eternally entomb The welfare of the world nor, further, can Those motions that give birth to things and growth Keep them forever when created there.
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
Nothing comes from nothing.
Lucretius
Image
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
Lucretius
Image
First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.
Lucretius
Image
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius
Image
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
Lucretius
Image
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
Lucretius