Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
...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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Crafts
Shatter
Cells
Dissolve
Allows
Outward
Blow
Hollow
Destruction
Entering
Force
Craft
Nature
Collapse
May
Inward
Aught
More quotes by Lucretius
Such crimes has superstition caused.
Lucretius
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
Lucretius
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
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
Lucretius
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
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
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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
Lucretius
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
Lucretius
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Lucretius
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
Lucretius
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
Lucretius
These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
Lucretius
Our life must once have end in vain we fly From following Fate e'en now, e'en now, we die.
Lucretius
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
Lucretius
I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters all, and whither she resolves Each in the end when each is overthrown. This ultimate stock we have devised to name Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things, Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.
Lucretius
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
Lucretius
There can be no centre in infinity.
Lucretius
