Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
Interpretation
Human beings dominate nature but often through violence and cruelty towards other living beings.
In this quote, Leonardo Da Vinci reflects on the darker aspects of humanity, suggesting that, unlike other animals, humans assert their dominance over the natural world through brutality. He implies that our very existence is tied to the suffering and death of other creatures, symbolizing a complex relationship where humans are both rulers and graveyards, inherently intertwined with the cycle of life and death.
In practice
This quote can be used in a lecture about ethics and morality in human behavior.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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