Lucretius Quotes

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

All things are infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small also is infinite. And when they are all together, the parts are not clear and distinct because of their smallness

Not to be limited by the greatest and yet to be contained in the tiniest—this is the divine

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

But the universe is infinite.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.