Epicurus quotes - page 3
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of Epicureanism. His teachings focused on the pursuit of happiness through the cultivation of simple pleasures and freedom from fear. He emphasized the importance of friendship and believed that a life without pain and anxiety leads to true happiness. Here are 71 of his quotes:
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life. (5)
Epicurus
For if they imagine infinite spaces of time before the world, during which God could not have been idle, in like manner they may conceive outside the world infinite realms of space, in which, if any one says that the Omnipotent cannot hold His hand from working, will it not follow that they must adopt Epicurus' dream of innumerable worlds? with this difference only, that he asserts that they are formed and destroyed by the fortuitous movements of atoms, while they will hold that they are made by God's hand, if they maintain that, throughout the boundless immensity of space, stretching interminably in every direction round the world, God cannot rest, and that the worlds which they suppose Him to make cannot be destroyed. ... there is no place beside the world ...no time before the world.
Epicurus
Epicurus
Occupation: Greek Philosopher
Born: 342 BC
Died: 270 BC
Quotes count: 71
Wikipedia: Epicurus
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