Epicurus : (341-270 BC), Greek author of an ethical philosophy of simple pleasure, friendship, & retirement. Schools of his philosophy survived up to 4th century AD.
... should make the unbeliever and the libertine declare what a certain Diocles said one day on seeing Epicurus in a temple: 'What a feast, what a spectacle for me to see Epicurus in a temple! All my doubts vainsh, piety takes its place again. I never saw Jupiter's greatness so well as now when I behold Epicurus kneeling down!"¹ ¹ "Ils ne peuvent plus nous dire qu'il n'y a que de petits esprits ...
... cropping up under their leadership Cynicism 31 propounded by Antisthenes, 32 which adopted the simplistic way of life of Socrates; Cyrenaic School by Aristippus, 33 Page 19 Epicureanism by Epicurus,34 a school which developed from the Cyrenaic school; Stoicism35 as improving the individual's spiritual well-being through self-control, fortitude and detachment; and finally Platonism,36 the founder... avoidance of suffering or inflicting pain; but at the same time he must employ good judgment and exercise self-control to keep a check on powerful human desires 'to possess and not be possessed.' 34. Epicurus (341-270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, a popular school of thought. His philosophy is a combination of atomic materialism which defines the world to be made up... that both body and soul perish after death and that the gods, also made up of atoms, though of a finer quality, do not interfere in the life of man and, therefore, do not punish or reward humans. Epicurus is famous for his argument about the contradiction between the existence of evil and the existence of an omnipotent God which he expounds as follows: If God wants to eradicate evil but cannot ...
... Natura (On the Nature of Things), but there is no theology there, rather the very opposite, an anti-religious thought based on the theories of Democritus and Epicurus, also the story-element which plays through La Divina Commedia and Paradise Lost is absent. Dante is distin-guished by a severe and concise and clear-cut force of... With heaven's moisture, when the ear is born. (Lucas) Lucretius is stupendous at times, as in those phrases where he describes the philosopher Epicurus, of whom he was a disciple, triumphing over the crude superstitions of popular religion that blocked the way of rational investigation: Ergo vivida vis ...
... things that are noxious and dangerous may pass through the ears, make their way through the nostrils. Not a few are to be shunned by the touch or avoided by the sight. Lucretius, like his master Epicurus, places gods in a region remote from this world, in the "interworld" spaces, living a life of happiness and being totally indifferent to the affairs of men: The Gods' majesty I see, and their... poets of the past Homer bore the sceptre without a peer but now he sleeps the same sleep as others. By his own spontaneous act, the great philosopher Democritus offered up his head to death. Even Epicurus passed away when his light of life had run its course. Each man, while he is alive, tries to fly away from himself, though self clings to him in his despite. A sure term of life is fixed for mortals ...
... of Prithivi and his journey to the land of Beulah. Wilson —That is a fine apologue, Keshav; is it your own, may I ask? Keshav —It is an allegory conceived by Vallabha Swami, the Indian Epicurus, and revealed to me by him in a vision. Wilson —There we see the false economy of Nature; only they are privileged to see these beautiful visions, who can without any prompting conceive images ...
... Sivaji; the lower material self Page 139 could not have given us these; you do not manufacture such men in the workshop of utility, on the forge of Charvaka or grow them in the garden of Epicurus. So is it with the lover of humanity, who loses or seeks to lose his lower self in mankind; no enlightened selfishness could have given us Father Damien or Jesus or Florence Nightingale. So is it ...
... refused by us and that we have spat on God just because He has taken the form of common clay. The monastic or cloistered life, the hermit's ascetic seclusion, are far greater than rotting in the sty of Epicurus, but they do not solve the problem posed by God. They intensely bypass the entire riddle of the universe. And once we accept the principle of bypassing it, the most logical thing is not to ...
... dialectical ratiocination too abstract, abstruse and generally inconclusive. Before coming to Baroda, he had read something of Plato, as well as Epictetus and the Lucretian statement of the ideas of Epicurus. Only such philosophical ideas as could be made dynamic for life interested him. Beyond a nodding acquaintance with the broad ideas of certain European philosophers, he had no interest in the highways ...
... calm and equable, clear and joyous, but not intemperate. Fortune's favourite to whom every door opened without keys, his life had in it that sedate maturity and august quiet, which, according to Epicurus, is the true attitude of the Gods, and which the Gods only give to those mortals, who, like themselves, have seen life steadily and seen it whole. And if his last years were stained with suffering ...
... dies At last for ever, and the last sunrise Shall have forgotten him extinct and cold. But virtue to itself is joy enough? Yet if to us sin taste diviner? why Should we not herd in Epicurus' sty Whom Nature made not of a Stoic stuff? For Nature being all, desire must reign. It is too sweet and strong for us to slay Upon a nameless altar, saying nay To honied urgings for ...
... weighty or profound, make on us the art-impact that is revelation: the consciousness has to take a particular pat- Page 75 tern before it can become the poetic word. The philosophy of Epicurus is the substance, the matter, of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, but not till it has been stamped with the Lucretian sight and feeling, no less than shaped into the Lucretian word and rhythm, is the ...
... Browning refer to the Roman poet Lucretius as denying divinely the Divine? Sometimes Lucretius is indeed stupendous, as in those phrases where he describes Page 120 the philosopher Epicurus, of whom he was a disciple, triumphing over the crude superstitions of popular religion that blocked the way of rational investigation: Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit, et extra Processit longe ...
... Lucretius the scoffer and materialist could raise his verse to rare heights. Stupendous indeed on occasion is the godlike movement of his Latin lines. Take those phrases where he describes the philosopher Epicurus, of whom he was a disciple, as triumphing over the crude superstitions of popular religion that blocked the path of rational investigation, and as pressing his intelligence upon the secret ways of ...
... solution. It is not difficult by some construction of the philosophic reason or of theological reasoning to circumvent the difficulty. It is possible to erect a fainéant Deity, like the gods of Epicurus, blissful in himself, observing but indifferent to a world conducted or misconducted by a mechanical law of Nature. It is open to us to posit a Witness Self, a silent Soul in things, a Purusha who ...
... 141n., 145-6n -."The Dry Salvages", 145-6n., 148n -"The Hollow Men", 140, 149n -The Waste Land, 140 Elsinore, 185 Encyclopaedists, the, 286 England, 205, 253, 284 Epicurus, 108, 1O9n Euclid, 107 Euripides, 73, 86 Europe, 58, 60, 199, 243, 253, 273, 284-5, 289 FAKIRS, 221, 223 Fascism, 253, 262 Flaubert, 88 France, 66, 193, 198, 205, 253, ...
... also 'Q' Art of Writing (Guild Books), p. 33. 94. Selected Essays., pp. 258,271. Writing of Lucretius' De Return Natura and its basis on the materialistic philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus, Santayana writes: "Suppose.... Lucretius is quite wrong in his science...His poem would then lose its pertinence to our lives and personal convictions; it would not lose its imaginative grandeur ...
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