“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“Time stays long enough for those who use it.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Variant: Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
Variant: While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
“As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variant: It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
No published occurrence of such an attribution has yet been located prior to one in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — Band 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2411/pg2411.html by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.