Lucretius Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

  Lucretius

  Odds, Atheism, May

• True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

  Lucretius

  Lying, Mind, Atheism

• It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.

  Lucretius

  Spring, Order, Infinite Time

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.41, Psychology Press

• Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

  Lucretius

  Lying, Grief, Responsibility

• The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

  Lucretius

  Mean, Religion, Atheism

• The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
  [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

  Lucretius

  Eternity, Eternal, Universe

• Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

  Lucretius

  Imperfection, Atoms, Venture

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