Quotations by Lucretius

Death, then, is nothing to us and touches us not at all, since the nature of the mind is held to be mortal.

• On Death, their position: Freeing ourselves from the fear100%

Nature cries aloud for nothing else but that pain be kept away from the body, and that the mind enjoy pleasant sensation, free of care and fear.

• On The highest good, their position: Hedonism90%

Nothing is ever created out of nothing by divine power.

• On Nature of reality, their position: Materialism100%

Nothing was born in the body that we might use it: it is the thing born that creates the use.

• On Explaining nature, their position: Mechanism100%

So much wrong could religion prompt.

• On Existence of God, their position: Theism70%

Whence comes this will wrested from the fates, by which we move wherever pleasure leads each on? The swerve breaks the decrees of fate.

• On Freedom of the will, their position: Free will80%