Leonardo da VinciMedicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. ✨ Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). The Note… ▶361LifeReading
Leonardo da VinciIntellectual passion drives out sensuality. ✨ Bradley I. Collins, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1997). Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical … ▶372Love
Leonardo da VinciIt is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceiv… ▶362DeathReading
Leonardo da VinciStudy without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. ✨ Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). Notebooks362Reading
Leonardo da VinciMy body will not be a tomb for other creatures.362Philosophy
Leonardo da VinciI awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.362Thought
Leonardo da VinciThere is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. ✨ Leonardo da Vinci (2014). Delphi Complete Work… ▶351Humanity
Leonardo da VinciI have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.362Love
Leonardo da VinciJust as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. ✨ Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). T… ▶373LifeThought
Leonardo da VinciThe lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small th… ▶363ReadingTruth
Leonardo da VinciTruth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. 363ReadingTruth
Leonardo da VinciHaving wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cav… ▶341Reading
Leonardo da VinciA bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements. ✨ The Notebooks of Leon… ▶353PoliticsReading
Leonardo da VinciExperience is a truer guide than the words of others. ✨ Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). Thoughts on Art and Life: Behind the Genius, p.24, eKitap Projesi342LifeThoughtTruth
Leonardo da VinciKnowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator. ✨ Leonardo da Vinci (2013). Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo, p.242, Lulu.com331LifeThought
Leonardo da VinciWhat is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art ✨ Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). Da Vinci Notebooks, p.93, Profile Books375Reading
Leonardo da VinciHow painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. ✨ Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). Notebooks342HumanityReadingSadness
Leonardo da VinciA diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.342Hope
Leonardo da VinciIt is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own. ✨ Leonardo da Vinci, John Sidney Hawkins (1802). A treatise on paintin… ▶353LifeReadingSadness
Leonardo da VinciEach man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth. ✨ Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press… ▶353Reading
Leonardo da VinciKing of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may … ▶353ReadingTruth
Leonardo da VinciPatience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way in… ▶365Reading
Leonardo da VinciPoor is the man who desires a lot332Life
Leonardo da VinciThe eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second. ✨… ▶321Reading
Leonardo da VinciAlthough nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate… ▶365LifeReading
Leonardo da VinciAll our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. ✨ Leonardo da Vinci (2014). Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated), p.969, Delphi Classics365Sadness
Leonardo da VinciAn arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.332Love
Leonardo da VinciThe knowledge of all things is possible376Politics
Leonardo da VinciOysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the cra… ▶321PoliticsReading
Leonardo da VinciWhen you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other mas… ▶377ReadingSadness
