Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook. — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god,… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
