Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to … - Lucretius

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study.

Lucretius

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

Children, Impelled, Make, Men, Names, Reason

Same Author Quotes

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Action, Impious, Led, Religious, Wicked

Truths kindle light for truths.

Kindle, Kindles, Light, Truths

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Falling, Motivational, Oft, Stay Strong, Stone, Wisdom

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.

Blind, Children, Dark, Light, Things, Tremble

. . . Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.

Blow, Cells, Entering, Inward, Outward