Clock Quote by Carlo Rovelli

The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating.…

— Adyashanti

“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical writer, who…

— Fleeming Jenkin

Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from…

— Lucretius

“Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in…

— Lucretius

“The history of science may be described as the history of the attempts, and the failures, of men "to see things as they are."…

— M.M. Pattison Muir

“The whole of life but labours in the dark. For just as children tremble and fear all In the viewless dark, so even we…

— Titus Lucretius Carus

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

— Lucretius

“Lucretius said, ‘fear begets gods,’ and he was right.”

— Douglas E. Richards

“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He rushes off…

— Lucretius

“On the other side of anger at those who either peddled false visions of security or incited irrational fears of death, Lucretius offered a…

— Stephen Greenblatt

In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is…

— Paul Ludwig Landsberg

“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of…

— Lucretius