“Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“Love, Fear, and Esteem, — Write these on three stones.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
"Of servants"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
“Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Quoted allegedly "From da Vinci`s Notes" in Jon Wynne-Tyson: The Extended Circle. A Dictionary of Humane Thought. Centaur Press 1985, p. 65 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1mMbAQAAIAAJ&q=murder. <br class="br">Actually the quote is not authentic but made up from a novel by Dmitri Merejkowski (w:Dmitry Merezhkovsky) entitled "The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci" (La Résurrecton de Dieux 1901), translated from Russian into English by Herbert Trench. G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press. There, in Book (i.e. chapter) VI, entitled The Diary of Giovanni Boltraffio, one finds the following: <br class="br">The master [Leonardo da Vinci] permits harm to no living creatures, not even to plants. Zoroastro http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Masini tells me that from an early age he has abjured meat, and says that the time shall come when all men such as he will be content with a vegetable diet, and will think on the murder of animals as now they think on the murder of men ( p. 226 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=g_pa0OaYX64C&pg=PA226). <br class="br">However, despite the quote's false attribution, da Vinci was in fact a vegetarian. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
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: In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Source: Leonardo's Notebooks
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
This quotation was first used in print (and misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci) in a science fiction story published in 1975, The Storms of Windhaven. One of the authors, Lisa Tuttle, remembers that the quote was suggested by science fiction writer Ben Bova, who says he believes he got the quote from a TV documentary narrated by Fredric March, presumably I, Leonardo da Vinci, written by John H. Secondari for the series Saga of Western Man, which aired on 23 February 1965. Bova incorrectly assumed that he was quoting da Vinci. The probable author is John Hermes Secondari (1919-1975), American author and television producer.
Misattributed
Variant: For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
Context: Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath