Lucretius Quotes - Page 6

Quotes about:

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Lucretius

Philosophy, Matter, Seeds

"De Rerum Natura". Book I, line 206,

8 Copy quote
(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.

Lucretius

Summer, Air, Hands

8 Copy quote
And many kinds of creatures must have died,
Unable to plant out new sprouts of life.
For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives
Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved
By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
And many have been entrusted to our care,
Commended by their usefulness to us.
For instance, strength supports a savage lion;
Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.

Lucretius

Life, Death, Science

8 Copy quote
Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.

Lucretius

Rocks, Air, Atheism

4 Copy quote
...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

Fear, Space, People

Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.19, Psychology Press

4 Copy quote
And since the mind is of a man one part,
Which in one fixed place remains, like ears,
And eyes, and every sense which pilots life;
And just as hand, or eye, or nose, apart,
Severed from us, can neither feel nor be,
But in the least of time is left to rot,
Thus mind alone can never be, without
The body and the man himself, which seems,
As 'twere the vessel of the same- or aught
Whate'er thou'lt feign as yet more closely joined:
Since body cleaves to mind by surest bonds.

Lucretius

Eye, Men, Hands

Lucretius, “Book III - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal”

4 Copy 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

Wise, Men, Thinking

Titus Lucretius Carus (1921). “Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things”

5 Copy quote
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

Lucretius

Passion, Harm, Intercourse

" A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell, (Book I, Part III, Chapter XXVII), 1945.

4 Copy quote
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

War, Encounters, Literature

Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

7 Copy quote
... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Lucretius

Pain, Spring, Doe

Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.16, Psychology Press

4 Copy quote
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Lucretius

Fall, Stones, Lasts

4 Copy quote
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

Self, Body, Void

Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.192, Delphi Classics

4 Copy quote
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

Evil, Wickedness, Deeds

Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

8 Copy quote
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

Lucretius

Light, Darkness, Atheism

4 Copy quote
At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

Lucretius

Believe, Science, Hands

9 Copy quote
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

Lucretius

Heaven, Victory, Literature

4 Copy quote
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

Sweet, Light, Long

Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.100, Courier Corporation

4 Copy quote
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

Grandma, Space, Grandpa

"De rerum natura".

7 Copy quote
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

Wall, World, Thunder

Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.250

4 Copy quote
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

Lucretius

Fall, Atheism, Atoms

Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

4 Copy quote
... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Lucretius

Children, Halloween, Dark

Titus Lucretius Carus, William Henry Denham Rouse, Martin Ferguson Smith (1975). “De rerum natura”, Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann

7 Copy quote
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

Lucretius

Ocean, Wind, Sea

7 Copy quote
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

Lucretius

Poetry, Touching, Charm

"De Rerum Natura". IV. 9,

9 Copy quote
For out of doubt
In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself
That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs
Incipient motions are diffused.

Lucretius

Men, Giving, Doubt

Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

Lucretius

Past, Men, Scene

"De Rerum Natura". IV, 1,182,

6 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Epicurus

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virgil

Ovid

Catullus

Aristotle

Horace

Lucretius

Follow

Born: 99 BC
Died: 55 BC
Occupation: Poet
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics