Leonardo da Vinci quotes - page 14

The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. (Leonardo da Vinci)
If there's no love, what then? View quote
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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less. View quote
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Inequality is the cause of all local movements. View quote
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. View quote
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Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. View quote
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The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, which acquires dignity by hearing of the things the eye has seen. View quote
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The body of the atmosphere is full of infinite radiating pyramids produced by the objects existing in it. View quote
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The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies no space is nothing. View quote
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When you wish to represent a man speaking to a number of people, consider the matter of which he has to treat and adapt his action to the subject. View quote
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Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. View quote
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To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. View quote
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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. View quote
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They will instantaneously run in person in various parts of the world, without motion. They will see the greatest splendour in the midst of darkness. View quote
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The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why? View quote
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Animals will be seen on the earth who will always be fighting against each other with the greatest loss and frequent deaths on each side. View quote
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A picture or representation of human figures, ought to be done in such a way as that the spectator may easily recognise, by means of their attitudes, the purpose in their minds. View quote
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To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind. View quote
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The air is filled with endless images of the objects distributed in it; and all are represented in all, and all in one, and all in each. View quote
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No man has a capacity for virtue who sacrifices honour for gain. Fortune is powerless to help one who does not exert himself. That man becomes happy who follows Christ. There is no perfect gift without great suffering. Our triumphs and our pomps pass away. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Men will seem to see new destructions in the sky. View quote
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All objects project their whole image and likeness, diffused and mingled in the whole of the atmosphere, opposite to themselves. View quote
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Shadow partakes of the nature of universal matter. View quote
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Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror. For the first is something in itself, and the other nothingness. View quote
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