Tag: Leonardo da Vinci
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There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
Leonardo da Vinci
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci