Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
Lucretius
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Thinking
Land
Whereof
Seeing
Dominion
Causes
Mortality
Working
Divinity
Fear
Holds
Much
Sky
Men
Cause
Think
Wise
Divinities
More quotes by Lucretius
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
Lucretius
Truths kindle light for truths.
Lucretius
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
Lucretius
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
Lucretius
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
Lucretius
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
Lucretius
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
Lucretius
Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.
Lucretius
Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
Lucretius
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
Lucretius
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
Lucretius
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
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
Lucretius
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
Lucretius
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
Lucretius
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
Lucretius
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life none the less will that everlasting death await you.
Lucretius
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
Lucretius
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
Lucretius
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius
