A collection of quotations related to epicurean philosophy on Epic Swerve.
“We must come with our eyes and our ears, our hearts and our understandings open; anxious, not to find ourselves right, but to discover what is right; asserting nothing which we cannot prove; believing nothing which we have not examined.” — Epicurus, in A Few Days In Athens
“Most of the anxieties we face are imaginary, no worse than the imaginings of children.” — Lucretius
“Let us imagine a man living in the continuous enjoyment of numerous and vivid pleasures alike of body and of mind, undisturbed either by the presence or by the prospect of pain: what possible state of existence could we describe as being more excellent or more desirable?” — Torquatus, in Cicero’s De Finibus, Bonorum et Malorum.