Alexander Rios

“Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and generate vast amounts of unnecessary suffering. Pleasure is the only >real< ethical guide. It returns our conversations about ethics to the natural context where these conversations belong: the well-being of sentient beings.”
― Hiram Crespo, Tending the Epicurean Garden

“Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.”
― Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura

“There can be no centre
in infinity.”
― Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe