“It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things. LUCRETIUS, De rerum natura1” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least; no more than the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“On the other side of anger at those who either peddled false visions of security or incited irrational fears of death, Lucretius… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“The whole of life but labours in the dark. For just as children tremble and fear all In the viewless dark, so… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical… — Fleeming Jenkin Copy Share Image
“Lucretius, I. 936-47: Veluti pueris absinthia tetra medentes Cum dare conantur, prius oras pocula circura Contingunt mellis dulci flavoque liquore, Ut puerorum… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
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