"These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and…" — Lucretius

"These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always."

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97 Quotes by Lucretius

Lucretius has 97 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great…
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small…
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

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More First Last Quotes

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In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition… — Louis Sullivan
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they… — John Donne
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am… — Rumi
I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First,… — Rumi
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River. — Maya Angelou
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but… — John Donne
Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?"… — Julie Anne Peters
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be… — James Joyce
He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only — Cinda Williams Chima

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