Lucretius Quotes

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Truths kindle light for truths.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Nothing comes from nothing.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

There can be no centre in infinity.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

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

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

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?

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.