Literary notes about VITAL (AI summary)
The term "vital" is employed across literary works to convey a sense of essential importance or life force that permeates both tangible and intangible aspects of existence. In some writings, it denotes an element that is absolutely critical—be that a secret necessity or a decisive factor in an argument, as seen when a character guards something of vital importance or when a speaker insists on the centrality of a point [1][2][3]. Other texts use "vital" to evoke the underlying energy animate in living beings or even in inanimate realities, whether referring to the life-sustaining heat and organs of the body or the driving force behind creative and natural processes [4][5][6]. At times, "vital" also emerges in philosophical and political discourses, lending an urgency to discussions about moral, social, or existential questions [7][8][9]. In this way, the word bridges the concrete with the abstract, indicating that both material and conceptual realms depend on forces that are as fundamental to existence as they are to the construction of an argument or a narrative.
- “It is a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be put into words.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - How had he settled this vital question for himself?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - This distinction is vital to the understanding of memory.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - Therefore a vital heat and wind there is Within the very body, which at death Deserts our frames.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus - Then when the flesh is boiled, the sacrificer takes a first offering of the flesh and of the vital organs and casts it in front of him.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus - For an hour I enjoy the soothing and vital scene to the low splash of waves—new stars steadily, noiselessly rising in the east.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - The interest involved is that of security, to every one's feelings the most vital of all interests.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill - Morality is therefore essentially the expression of hostility to life, in so far as it would overcome vital types.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - This problem needed to be solved in one generation of American women, and was the most vital of all problems of force.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
