A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Non sono sicura che tutte quelle cose siano state provocate dalla semplice "sete di conoscenza"... comunque bellissima foto :-)
RispondiEliminaMa siccome siamo esseri umani, e non dei, e le passioni ci sconvolgono, gli imperi del Messico e del Peù furono distrutti e la Grecia fu sottomessa (e di nuovo sta succedendo ora, peraltro).
RispondiEliminaEle, passo di qui perchè - dopo la tua partecipazione dell'anno scorso - volevo invitarti a seguire la seconda parte della saga di "Niamh delle fate".
RispondiEliminaSi intitola "La stella di luna".
Qualche info qui:
http://colorarelavita.blogspot.it/2013/01/la-stella-di-luna-ginevra-sta-per.html
Buona domenica!
ah però
RispondiElimina