Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the idea that certain elements can nurture their own destruction.
Leonardo Da Vinci's quote reflects on the dual nature of existence, suggesting that some things, like wood, provide sustenance to a fire but ultimately lead to their own demise. This serves as a metaphor for various aspects of life where the very things that support or empower us can also bring about our downfall, emphasizing the complexities and contradictions inherent in nature and life itself.
Themes
PerilDualityNatureSelf-DestructionFireWood
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about the risks of ambition and success.
More from Leonardo Da Vinci
All quotes βSmall rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
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.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
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.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Similar quotes
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
DogenRead
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.
Ernest RenanRead
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.
Thomas MertonRead
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose BierceRead
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.
C. S. LewisRead