True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?