Lucretius

Daily Inspiration: Drop by Drop

Edit Syracuse 11 May 2016

This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com and InterFaith Works of CNY ...   ... Lucretius taught, "The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop." ... ....

Professor Chris Ackerley on Samuel Beckett and the Physical Universe (University of Otago)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016

Rather than engaging directly with this brave new world, the mathematical and physical paradoxes that inform his writing are mediated through an Aristotelian tradition, and a challenge to that tradition by the ancient Atomists (Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius) - a challenge that curiously anticipates the physical revolutions of Beckett's age, yet ......

This Rampaging Dis-Ease Called Religion!

Edit Modern Ghana 05 May 2016

By Olalekan Adigun. One of the most challenging things to write about is religion. This is because, religion-an institution created by man-has been so abused by the class of animals that created it in the first place. In many cases one is either applauded for a position or chastised depending on the “religious beliefs” of the person who is exhibiting the reaction(s) ... My own view on religion is that of Lucretius ... @adgorwell. ....

An Interview With James Richardson

Edit Huffington Post 01 Apr 2016

He teaches at Princeton University. I first saw you read at a Best of American Poetry launch reading in New York City about eight years ago ... Why aphorisms? ... An aphorism just....finds one ... My longest poem, "How Things Are," is a kind of fantasia on the sciencey poet Lucretius, and I have other poems in direct conversation, though they don't always admit it, with Homer, Ovid, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, W....

Why Isn't Edward P. Tryon A World-famous Physicist?

Edit Huffington Post 17 Mar 2016

Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons, The History of the Universe. Why is there a Universe? Scientists simply don't know how to address why questions. They are out of the present formulation of modern science....Nor do we know, or have any prospect of ever knowing, why there is a Universe. Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Dawn ... The Roman philosopher Lucretius had said nothing can be created from nothing, and few argued otherwise ... Notes ... I ... I ... (P. I ... ....

Does God Live in Our Zip Code?

Edit Huffington Post 09 Mar 2016

In her book, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity, the philosopher Catharine Wilson has asserted that "we are all, in a sense, Epicureans now." The biblical scholar N. T. Wright quotes Wilson, and calls her assessment "spot on." ... But we are clearly not all Epicureans in that sense ... disciple Lucretius, saw no need for a God or gods to create the cosmos ... God, in Lucretius's Epicureanism, does not care about us, and we do not need him ... ....

What Do Private Schools Teach?

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016

Listening in Class.  Getty Images. While the curriculum at public schools is mandated by state guidelines, private schools have a great deal of latitude in designing their curriculum ... Milton Academy, a private boarding and day high school in Milton, Massachusetts, offers advanced Classics courses, including the Roman Elegy and the Philosophy of Lucretius ... ....

Ancient Greek Philosophy

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016

Raphael, "La stanza della segnatura" (1509-1511).  Art Renewal Center. Ancient Greek philosophy extends from as far as the seventh century B.C. up until the beginning of the Roman Empire, in first century A.D. During this period five great philosophical traditions originated. the Platonist, the Aristotelian, the Stoic, the Epicurean, and the Skeptic ... Early Figures ... The latter doctrine is developed also in Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura....

Who were the first atheists?

Edit New Statesman 01 Feb 2016

Voltaire, in a celebrated early poem, had consciously modelled himself on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose materialism and contempt for religion had been exciting freethinkers ever since the rediscovery of his masterpiece On the Nature of Things back in the Renaissance ... in the habit of looking back to Lucretius to sustain their own scepticism....

Flat Wrong: The Misunderstood History Of Flat Earth Theories

Edit IFL Science 29 Jan 2016

For most people, being described as a “flat Earther” is an insult. The idea of the Earth being flat is considered not only wrong, but a model of wrongness, the gold standard of being incorrect about something ... “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society .” ... This was maintained by Thales, considered by many one of the first philosophers, Lucretius, an avowed materialist, as well as Democritus, the founder of atomic theory....

The Paradox of Tragedy

Edit About.com 24 Jan 2016

Here is, for example, what the Roman poet Lucretius and British philosopher Thomas Hobbes had to say on it ... heavy stress some other man is enduring! Not that anyone's afflictions are in themselves a source of delight; but to realize from what troubles you yourself are free is joy indeed." Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe, Book II....

Epicurus' View Of The Universe

Edit About.com 21 Jan 2016

Steven Greenblatt's book The Swerve argues that the discovery of Lucretius' poem "On The Nature of Things" at the beginning of the Renaissance is part of a turning point in the intellectual history of the West. If he is right, this is because the philosophy of Epicurus–which Lucretius' poem expresses–is astonishingly modern, especially in the way its rigorously materialistic and mechanistic account of nature....

The "Sacred Terror" of the Alps of Switzerland

Edit Huffington Post 26 Dec 2015

"Placed on this planet since yesterday, and only for a day, we can only hope to glimpse the knowledge that we will probably never attain.". -Horace-B�n�dict de Saussure, 1796. Dateline. Mount Pilates, Switzerland ... We never feel so alive as when we have nearly died ... The Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus, about a half century before Christ, called the Alps the waste places of the world, where nature had swept its rubbish ... . ... ....

'Lucretius' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Pompeii (2014)

Thorns (2009)

Famous quotes by Lucretius:

"Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods"

"How many evils have flowed from religion"

"So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds."

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling"

"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 imperfectio"

"Love is a product of habit"

"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind."

"From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers."

"Nothing can be created out of nothing"

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."

"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."

"Victory puts us on a level with heaven."

"The sum of all sums is eternity."

"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone."

"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."

"In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers."

"From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers."

"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."

"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows."

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