"Weary of the sight, now no one deigns to look up to heaven's lucid temples." Lucretius
2007-09-19 20:23:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Please tell me.
My guess is that it is a rant from one Lucretius and that he is ill of mind
2007-09-27 14:59:16 · answer #1 · answered by celtish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What it means, according to the symbolism from it's time, is that 'Tired of seeing the same thing so often (every day?) now no one bothers to look up to heaven's lucid (which means easily understood) temples."
What it implies, at least to me, is that even Paradise would become boring if that was all there was.
2007-09-20 03:48:48 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It sounds as if those in Lucretius' world found the pounding pervasiveness of that era's religious practices rather tedious.
2007-09-20 06:44:02 · answer #3 · answered by thewayilookatthis 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lucretius was having a very bad night. Must have forgotten to take his medication.
2007-09-20 09:04:09 · answer #4 · answered by enchanted 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Weary(tired/worn out) of the sight.
I think he's saying that people are being more careless and less sensitive towards religion or this whole god thing. Maybe everybody around him is starting to think that such things are pointless.
2007-09-20 12:02:33 · answer #5 · answered by Reaper 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Familiarity breeds contempt.
2007-09-26 09:26:23 · answer #6 · answered by Iconoclast 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People now days are tired of the instruction from mythologies of religions and their goals, so they no longer apply the spiritual teachings unto them-selve and no longer wish for spiritual goals to happen to them-selve, in perhaps their after life.
2007-09-20 05:21:32 · answer #7 · answered by 24 years o natural Philosophier 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He is saying in a poetic way that " familiarity breeds contempt"
2007-09-28 00:02:25 · answer #8 · answered by secret society 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it means that people are so caught up in what they think they want they don't realize what they really need.
2007-09-28 01:33:31 · answer #9 · answered by rvtrance 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bored to distraction, and missing out on the joy of life.
2007-09-20 03:26:55 · answer #10 · answered by joe 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋