Lucretius Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

  Lucretius

  Truth, Knowledge, Giving

  "De Rerum Natura - on the Nature of Things". Book by Lucretius, I, 700,

• If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

  Lucretius

  Mother, Sea, Names

• Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

  Lucretius

  Children, Men, Names

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.164, Psychology Press

• Thus the sum
  Forever is replenished, and we live
  As mortals by eternal give and take.
  The nations wax, the nations wane away;
  In a brief space the generations pass,
  And like to runners hand the lamp of life
  One unto other.

  Lucretius

  Hands, Space, Giving

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.214, Delphi Classics

• For out of doubt
  In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself
  That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs
  Incipient motions are diffused.

  Lucretius

  Men, Giving, Doubt

  Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• Nor can those motions that bring death prevail
  Forever, nor eternally entomb
  The welfare of the world; nor, further, can
  Those motions that give birth to things and growth
  Keep them forever when created there.

  Lucretius

  Giving, Forever, Growth

  Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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