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NewEpicurean: Episode 167 of the Lucretius Today podcast is now available! This week we finish Chapter 9 of the DeWitt book and discuss issues involving motion.

John_Attridge: Me: what is the origin of the word "figure"? Auerbach: it comes from the Latin "figura" meaning a 3D shape Me: got it thanks A: it often translated the Greek "schema" Me: ok that'll do A: its semantic history is complex Me: shhhhh A: in Lucretius Me (fingers in ears): lalalalala

ptsdboy: oh what you discover while reading lucretius…

crimaiota: "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."（Lucretius）（S1E13）

CutterStreeby: Stephen Barile Ancient Campfires “Everything has a fixed mother.” Lucretius Outside beyond the back porch And ringer-washer, up the hill Where the tent-cabins and outhouse stood For many seasons, a steep climb Among

danjzs1: Epicurus and Lucretius unsurprisingly had no political teaching…

samccart1: This week I'm wrapping up Book 3 (on mortality of the soul) of de Rerum Natura in my Latin seminar, and am looking forward to having the students read these lines from Larkin's "Aubade" as a retort to Lucretius:

johnthomas1536: How was it possible for Lucretius to get along without the Bible? How much need had Newton of that hypothesis?

thenewpaper: Lucretius ready for a change of fortune

_bonaventurian: Those specific excesses in the “corporeality” of the Renaissance turn in art come from the revivals of the Epicureanism of Lucretius but this current is not what the Renaissance was reducible to at all. The Renaissance could broadly be reduced intellectually to two camps:

artisbrutal2021: Quotes Lucretius on Pg 77 "Dum taxat, rerum magnarum parva potest res exemplare dare et vestigia notitiae. So far as it goes, a small thing may give an analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge. "

OberoiShaurya: Flatmate: your room is so dusty me, as I lie on the floor, brain dead : Lucretius said that the dust in the light can lead us to see the invisible particles of the universe Flatmate: I think you need to leave grad school

VM1z: Life is one long struggle in the dark. - Lucretius

SaltyDog615: Salty Philosophy Note: Einstein's findings of unexplained energy in Brownian Motion, created a revolution. Note - Lucretius had observed and discussed these physics in Roman times in De Rerum Natura.

krumbbumm: “The notion that religion & the faculty of projective imagination are bound together has become virtually the dominant opinion among the educated class today. One might fancy that a telephone game from ancient times, originating with Xenophanes, Epicurus, & Lucretius… 1/

OberoiShaurya: If only child me had read Lucretius

karamazovluvr: she is so sweet but im blushing and cant focus on lucretius ...

GBQuotesBot: "Our terrors and our darknesses of mind, must be dispelled, not by the sunshine's rays, not by those shining arrows of the light, but by insight into nature, and a scheme of systematic contemplation." - Lucretius

officialSAICBOT: Lucretius, we cherish and wisdom with talent, of man is not your desires, and life where the best, than the paint my life

samccart1: This is the only one of these I've seen that includes Lucretius, an absolute MUST. My own list would include all of these, but I dare not rank them.

laplcentral: The quotation is taken from Lucretius' De rerum natura (Of the nature of things). The poem explains the nature of the mind and soul within the development of the world and its phenomena and to dispel fear of the gods and death.

jeffreyscott88: “We are not spending time, we are spending our life. Take care for the next 24hrs, treat each one as if it were the highest gift you could receive.” ~Lucretius, 55BC

hustlerclique: ive been so at peace the last two days. being willfully alone, listening to peaceful music, daydreaming, figuring out my goals and setting boundaries for myself, meditating, cleaning my entire apt, i’m even re-reading Lucretius before i go to bed tn. I dont want this high to end

tpmquiz: Who wrote The Consolation of Philosophy - Lucretius; Seneca; Boethius; or Alain de Botton?

GBQuotesBot: "It is sweet to see from what evils you are yourself exempt" - Lucretius

SaltyDog615: Salty Philosophy Note II: Observe what happens when sunbeams... You will see a multitude of tiny particles mingling in a multitude of ways... their dancing is an actual indication of underlying movements of matter that are hidden from our sight... Lucretius

SaltyDog615: Salty Philosophy Note III: ".. atoms which move of themselves [i.e., spontaneously]. Then those small compound bodies that are least removed from the impetus of the atoms are set in motion by the impact of their invisible blows and...cannon against...larger bodies." Lucretius

SaltyDog615: Salty Philosophy Note IV: "So the movement mounts up from the atoms and gradually emerges to the level of our senses so that those bodies are in motion that we see in sunbeams, moved by blows that remain invisible." Lucretius

SaltyDog615: Salty Philosophy Note V: Interesting to Note that Lucretius was one of the first atomists, and Relativists. And that modern physics has not caught up to the Romans.

crimaiota: "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."（Lucretius）（S1E13）

GeertPlas: To fear a future state of death is to make the conceptual blunder of supposing yourself present to regret and bewail your own non-existence. The reality is that being dead will be no worse (just as it will be no better) than it was, long ago, not yet to have been born. Lucretius

NewEpicurean: SPECIAL EPISODE! Lucretius Today interviews Dr. David Glidden, Professor Emeritus from University of California Riverside on his work "Epicurean Prolepsis."

ShadiBartsch: On the subject of banning talk of menstruation among 12 year olds, let us ban discussion of wet dreams too. Silence, young man! And Lucretius, no more from you either, you seditious Epicurean perv!

tweetheart4711: Vernal equinox is a great day to read Lucretius' great philsophical poem, De Rerum Natura - or at least to start book 1 of 6. If you don't Latin there are a number of translations out there, including David R. Slavitt's verse rendering.

tpmquote: Look back at the eternity that passed before we were born, and mark how utterly it counts to us as nothing. This is a mirror that Nature holds up to us, in which we may see the time that shall be after we are dead.--Lucretius

ekodeckyann: « Another man's food is another man's poison » Lucretius

mobokhari: It was considered poor form to discuss crucifixion in elite social circles. Therefore, mention of crucifixion is generally absent in writings of refined Latin writers like Pliny the younger, Statius, Lucretius, Virgil. 3

crimaiota: "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."（Lucretius）（S1E13）

philosophersmag: And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.--Lucretius

nihilistPengu: Lucretius said much the same...probably fairly common view at time idk

ziemexqzwf: Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History) HCYNB0H

NewEpicurean: Episode 165 of the Lucretius Today Podcase is now available. This week we begin our review of "The New Physics" (Chapter 9 of DeWitt's book)."

ParadiseInside: ON THE NATURE OF THINGS Lucretius

thewavesquotes: So he turned with a passion that made up for his indolence upon Catullus, Lucretius, with a mind like the tongue of an ant-eater, rapid, dexterous, glutinous, he searched out every curl and twist of those Roman sentences, and sought out one person, always one person to sit beside

jn_bradi: One radical thing about Lucretius is he really puts the verb 'explain' at the forefront of thought - it's aim. The name o' the game is to explain the things we see

moh50761598: Constant dripping hollows out a stone.,Titus Lucretius Carus,dreams, inspirational, tenacity,

philosophybreak: Really, the recipe for happiness is simple, thinks Epicurus. The philosopher Lucretius describes it as follows: “To avoid bodily pain, to have a mind free from anxiety and fear, and to enjoy the pleasures of the senses.”

wophugus: Lucretius postulated natural selection. The 19th century innovation was that it was somewhat driven by random mutation and that it was responsible for speciation.

wophugus: So in de rerum natura Lucretius postulates there where a whole bunch of weird animals at some point and the ones that could survive better thrived. He did not postulate this was still happening or that one species could “turn into” another.

tpmquiz: De rerum natura was written by the Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius (not by Aristotle).

esth8586: It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.,Lucretius,Soul, Mind, Wealth ,

WisdomExplained: Truths kindle light for truths. Lucretius

grimrots: ⠀ ⠀ ⠀established on 021523 ; scribed under the pseudonym of lucretius, grimrots as of 160323.

renatrigiorese: Points don’t make sense. Sorry Leucippus and Lucretius.

fivememos: Was this not perhaps what Ovid was aiming at, when he wrote about the continuity of forms? And what Lucretius was aiming at when he identified himself with that nature common to each and every thing?

adamsturch1: “We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.” - Titus Lucretius Carus

meghaverma_art: Your avg materialist who doesn’t believe in the immortal soul because he’s afraid of his own psyche. Hey dude, Lucretius called from 1 BC and wants his gay ass arguments back.

thewavesquotes: So he turned with a passion that made up for his indolence upon Catullus, Lucretius, with a mind like the tongue of an ant-eater, rapid, dexterous, glutinous, he searched out every curl and twist of those Roman sentences, and sought out one person, always one person to sit beside

WisdomExplained: Nothing can be created from nothing. Lucretius

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

wophugus: Lucretius specifically writes about how unfulfilling roman luxury was and he meant it as “material things won’t make you happy” but now you can read it as “material things in the first century specifically won’t make you happy riding horses is boring go watch a movie.”

wophugus: TBC Lucretius would prefer the present. 1. He thought comfort > hedonism, so modern medicine and AC and etc, would be huge for him 2. He thought scientific understanding was key to beating existential dread and, boy, Lucretius, have I got news about the last 400 years of science.

SaltyDog615: By contrary nature, the imponderable... Even as the heavier more of matter shows, And how much less of vacant room inside. That which we're seeking with sagacious quest Exists, infallibly, commixed with things- The void, the invisible inane. Lucretius De Rerum Natura

Rad_Sherwoodism: Lucretius, well-respected man of letters says ideas are "troubling" and "very dangerous," may lead to "unwarranted belief in miracles and possibly also an afterlife." Recommends government intervention before mass outbreaks of interest in virtue.

danjzs1: Lucretius’ De rerum natura could be translated “On the Nature of Things,” or even, “The Facts of Life.”

Nevada_Inc: Constant dripping hollows out a stone. -Lucretius

GBQuotesBot: "It is sweet to see from what evils you are yourself exempt" - Lucretius

GBQuotesBot: "Our terrors and our darknesses of mind, must be dispelled, not by the sunshine's rays, not by those shining arrows of the light, but by insight into nature, and a scheme of systematic contemplation." - Lucretius

KenjiSiratori: Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated. Lucretius

_Templism_: Intellectual influences upon Templism: David Hume, Newton, Max Stirner, Lucretius/Democritus, Aristotle, Richard Dawkins (genetics) He who read Marx/Nietzsche/Hegel/Yockey/Evola/whatever other continental stupid conceptual bullshit WNBAT

laurelworlds: Lucretius and his philosophy

CALEBMALOVA17: What is food to one man is bitter poison to others,Titus Lucretius Carus,lucretius, philosophy,

jacodypress: Roman philosopher Lucretius said, “What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”

mobiquotes: In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man

sirosenbaum: ok I'm almost certain Lucretius did not write that Nature “does everything on her own steam" that has to be a translator's embellishment no?

thewisdomchest: Lucretius: "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

fcF4qyJAxNzAEHN: Spinoza esteemed Lucretius because of this quote: religio pedibus subiecta.

ForTheTape: Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things Odilon Redon

fivememos: Was this not perhaps what Ovid was aiming at, when he wrote about the continuity of forms? And what Lucretius was aiming at when he identified himself with that nature common to each and every thing?

snapjudge: intersection between religion and science. 18th-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn’s rational arguments for the soul foreground our thinking about non-materiality; Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' writings suggest how strict materialism might explain elusive phenomena;

1974Mnil: Lucretius, the epic poet, famed for his didactic poem about Nature, would of course get a very used paperback copy of the select works of Aquinas ... he would have written a better poem (although I do not disdain his metrical skills or his lexical choices - he was a real poet)

neurosocialself: Fresco in the House of Marcus Lucretius, Pompeii (IX.3.5), depicts Hercules drunk in the court of the Lydian Queen, Omphale. Cherubs adorn. She sports Heracles' club and lion-skin. Nat Archaeological Museum, Naples

TheQuoteSpot2: The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. -Lucretius

thewavesquotes: So he turned with a passion that made up for his indolence upon Catullus, Lucretius, with a mind like the tongue of an ant-eater, rapid, dexterous, glutinous, he searched out every curl and twist of those Roman sentences, and sought out one person, always one person to sit beside

monterosato: Rereading Gamble, Joshua and Nail's paper on new materialisms (because I am going to teach it)

davidclarkphel1: Lucretius' theory of the conservation of atomic matter

AntifragileBook: I have called this mental defect the Lucretius problem, after the Latin poetic philosopher who wrote that the fool believes that the tallest mountain in the world will be equal to the tallest one he has observed.

278avJC: "All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher." ~Lucretius ( 99-49 BCE )

fivememos: Was this not perhaps what Ovid was aiming at, when he wrote about the continuity of forms? And what Lucretius was aiming at when he identified himself with that nature common to each and every thing?

thewavesquotes: So he turned with a passion that made up for his indolence upon Catullus, Lucretius, with a mind like the tongue of an ant-eater, rapid, dexterous, glutinous, he searched out every curl and twist of those Roman sentences, and sought out one person, always one person to sit beside

NeilTex67518665: Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.,Lucretius,Men, Heights, Which ,

fivememos: Was this not perhaps what Ovid was aiming at, when he wrote about the continuity of forms? And what Lucretius was aiming at when he identified himself with that nature common to each and every thing?

worthwhilebooks: The late great critic Harold Bloom identified the “strong poets” as Homer, Isaiah, Lucretius, Dante, and Shakespeare. Milton, Goethe and Hugo receive honorable mention. Is he wrong? Are there any strong poets post-Shakespeare?

magyvor01: "The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling." - Lucretius

NewEpicurean: Episode 164 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this session we discuss the feelings as a part of the Epicurean canon of truth, and we complete our review of Chapter 8 of the DeWitt book.

Otto_Lehto: Introduce yourself in seven books: 1. Ethics (Spinoza) 2. The Origin of Species (Darwin) 3. Finnegans Wake (Joyce) 4. Social Statics (Spencer) 5. De Rerum Natura (Lucretius) 6. The Illuminatus Trilogy (Wilson & Shea) 7. Tao Te Ching (Laozi)

valenscore: Lucretius knew what's up

neuroselfAus: Fresco in the House of Marcus Lucretius, Pompeii (IX.3.5), depicts Hercules drunk in the court of the Lydian Queen, Omphale. Cherubs adorn. She sports Heracles' club and lion-skin. National Archaeological Museum, Naples

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