It Is Of Great Advantage That Man

In The Beginning We Must Simplify The Subject, Thus Unavoidably Falsifying It, And Later We Must Sophisticate Away The Falsely Simple Beginning.

God Who Preceded All Existence Is A Refuge.

Even The Existence Of This Corporeal Element, Low As It In Reality Is, Because It Is The Source Of Death And All Evils, Is Likewise Good For The Permanence Of The Universe And The Continuation Of The Order Of Things, So That One Thing Departs And The Other Succeeds.

First Theory . There Is No Providence At All For Anything In The Universe; All Parts Of The Universe, The Heavens And What They Contain, Owe Their Origin To Accident And Chance; There Exists No Being That Rules And Governs Them Or Provides For Them. This Is The Theory Of Epicurus.

Truth Does Not Become More True By Virtue Of The Fact That The Entire World Agrees With It, Nor Less So Even If The Whole World Disagrees With It.