Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
-Leondardo da Vinci
Today's quote is a creed which I attempt to follow. Certainly, I struggle in my attempt to keep my life simple, but if you do not grapple with life's challenges in this world, you are doing something wrong. Anyway, I agree wholeheartedly with the featured quote, simplicity IS the ultimate sophistication. And we must remember that there is distinction between simplicity and complexity. I like to believe that something simple can also be complex. For example, the consumption of water. A simple process, a simple means of hydration, a simple type of beverage. Right? However, consider the distribution of said liquid throughout the systems of one's body. The explanation of that would surely be complex (not that I even could explain it properly). The human body is naturally complex, we need not add to it. And I believe that is the message here. If we let most things in life simply be as they are, they are sophisticated enough. Consider even, one of the definitions at the root of sophistication; sophism: any false argument, a fallacy. Perhaps if one distinctly attempts to further sophisticate matters, one is introducing a layer of fallacy?
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance era. Da Vinci excelled in the practices of painting, sculpting, writing, architecture, music, math, science, anatomy, geology, inventing, cartography, and botany. Truly, Da Vinci was a Renaissance man and a genius. While his view of the world was fundamentally logical, he also produced two of the most heralded paintings in history: The Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper.
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