Why we need to know
the nature of the universe
   
         
 

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"Epicure's cure is a form of cognitive therapy. If we have wrong idea's about the world, we can not be happy. So a happy man needs to know. He needs to know no less than the nature of the universe. "
    
           
     

It would be impossible
to banish fear
on matters
of the highest importance,
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if a person did not know
the nature of
the whole universe,
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but lived in dread
of what
the legends tell us.
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Hence without
the study of nature
there was no enjoyment
of unmixed pleasures.

(Epicure, Ratae Sententia 12)
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Below, you find, my restatement of this message.
    
           
     


Si.
el no conose la natura de universa, ma,
el creda la istorias vea e nebla,
donce,
el no conose la difere,
entra la veria, e nonveria, e,
entra la bon, e la mal.

donce,
el no pote gustar la joia,
sin suspeta.

    
           
     


Ance.

Si,
el no conose la natura de universa, ma,
el creda la istorias supra la deos e la spiritos,
donce,
el no pote gustar la joia,
sin es temer supra la inconosedia.

    
           
     

Finir nos debe deduir.

El pote gustar la joia,
sola si,
el conose la natura de universa.

    
           
     
 
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This is how the poet William Blake saw Newton, a calculating villain. Sent by satan into the world to "clip an angles wings" and "to unweave the rainbow". Blake was not an Epicurean. Newton might very well have been. He quoted in his Principia Mathematica the Epicurean poem "the nature of the universe". The Principia can be seen as a spectacular reemergence of the Epicurean agenda of setting us free from ignorance and superstition.

(below an image of the real Newton)
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