Leonardo da Vinci idézet

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„Én már fiatal koromtól fogva megtagadtam a hús fogyasztását, és eljön majd az idő, amikor a hozzám hasonló emberek úgy fognak tekinteni az állatok meggyilkolására, mint ahogyan most az emberek meggyilkolására tekintenek.”

„Nem lehet kisebb vagy nagyobb uralom, az önmagunk feletti uralomnál.”

„A folyókban a víz, amelyet megérintesz, az utolsó abból, ami elmúlt, és az első abból, ami jön; így van ez a jelen idővel is.”

„Ha egyszer megízlelted a repülést, utána úgy fogsz járni a földön, hogy szemed az eget fürkészi, mert ott voltál fent és oda vágysz vissza.”

„A festmény olyan költői műalkotás, amelyet látni lehet, nem pedig hallani, a költészet pedig olyan festmény, amelyet hallani lehet, nem pedig látni.”

„A tollak ugyanúgy fel emelik az embereket az ég felé, mint ahogy a madarakat is. És azt pedig az általuk írt betűkön keresztül.”

„Ez az ember őrült! Mindig azért nyomorog, hogy ne nyomorogjon…”

„Hány és hány ember él a Földön, aki nem egyéb, mint kenyérpusztító, akinek nincs semmiféle érdeme, sem célja ezen a világon, nem marad más utána, mint a teli latrina.”

„Minden tudásunk a mi felfogásunkból ered.”

„Tudásunk abból fakad, amit érzékeink közvetítenek számunkra.”

„Ki keveset tud sokat téved!”

„Amikor egyedül vagy, csak magadra számíthatsz.”

„A festészet nagyobb igazsággal, hívebben állítja az érzékszerv elé a természet műveit, semmint a szavak vagy betűk, viszont a betűk hívebben állítják a szavakat az érzékszervünk elé, semmint a festészet…”

„A legnagyobb és egyben legkisebb uralom, az önuralom.”

„Ha képet akarsz kapni valamely dolog formájáról, a vizsgálódást mindig a részletekkel kezdd, és csak akkor térj át egyik részről a másikra, ha az elsőt tökéletesen megismerted és az emlékezetedbe vésted!”

„Aki tud, könnyű annak egyetemessé válnia. (Fascil cosa e farsi universale.)”

„A tudomány a kapitány, a gyakorlás a katona.”

„Valóban nem tudom fejből idézni a klasszikus szerzőket, ahogy ők teszik, de nekem a tapasztalat fénye világít, akárcsak azoknak a mestereknek, akikre hivatkoznak. Nem tesznek egyebet, mint páváskodnak és pöffeszkednek, idegen tollakkal ékeskednek, nekem pedig még azt sem engedik meg, hogy sajátjaimat mutogassam.”

„Ahol több az érzés, több a szenvedés is!”

„Kinek minél többje van, annál jobban kell rettegnie, hogy elveszti.”

„Testünk alá van vetve az égnek, az ég alá van vetve szellemünknek.”

„Semmiféle dolgot nem lehet sem szeretni sem gyűlölni, amíg meg nem ismertük.”

„Ahogy a vasat belepi a rozsda, a víz megposhad, vagy a hidegtől jéggé lesz, úgy az értelem is, ha nem használjuk, megromlik.”

„Aki keveset gondolkodik, az sokat téved.”

„Tanulmányozd először az elméletet, aztán jöjjön a gyakorlat, mely belőle származik.”

„Azokkal a dolgokkal, amiket nem lehet a matematika pontos nyelvével megfogalmazni, teljesen felesleges foglalkozni.”

„A festőnek minden festményt azzal kéne kezdenie, hogy feketére festi a vásznat. Hiszen a természetben minden dolog sötét, kivéve azt, amelyet fény éri.”

„A vágy nélküli tanulás megrontja az emlékezetet, és semmit sem tart meg, amit bevett.”

„A festő elméjében és kezében van az univerzum.”

„Szeretem azokat, akik mosolyoghatnak a bajban ...”

„A legnemesebb öröm a megértésből fakadó öröm.”

„Semmit nem lehet szeretni vagy utálni, először megérteni kell.”

„A művészetet soha nem fejezik be, csak elhagyják.”

„Amint egy jól eltöltött nap boldog alvást eredményez, úgy a jól alkalmazott élet boldog halált eredményez.”

„A tanulás soha nem meríti ki az elmét.”

„Aki igazán tud valamit, annak nincs oka kiabálni.”

„Elismert tény, hogy mások munkájában könnyebben észrevesszük a hibákat, mint a sajátunkban.”

„Aki egy csillaghoz ragaszkodik, az nem változtatja meg a véleményét.”

„Az idő elég sokáig marad mindenkinek, aki használni akarja.”

„A legkisebb macskaféle egy remekmű.”

„Aki erényt vet, becsületet arat.”

„Az elején könnyebb ellenállni, mint a végén.”

„A vas rozsdásodik a ha nem használják, a víz elveszíti tisztaságát a pangástól... ugyanígy a tétlenség elszívja az elme erejét.”

„Boldogok lesznek azok, akik meghallgatják a halottak szavait. A jó cselekedetek olvasása és parancsaik betartása.”

“The Caladrius is a bird of which it is related that, when it is carried into the presence of a sick person, if the sick man is going to die, the bird turns away its head and never looks at him; but if the sick man is to be saved the bird never loses sight of him but is the cause of curing him of all his sickness. Like unto this is the love of virtue. It never looks at any vile or base thing, but rather clings always to pure and virtuous things and takes up its abode in a noble heart; as the birds do in green woods on flowery branches. And this Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.”

“I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.”

“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”

“O admirable impartiality of Thine, Thou first Mover; Thou hast not permitted that any force should fail of the order or quality of its necessary results.”

“Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.”

“It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.”

“And if you should say that the shells were carried by the waves, being empty and dead, I say that where the dead went they were not far removed from the living; for in these mountains living ones are found, which are recognisable by the shells being in pairs; and they are in a layer where there are no dead ones; and a little higher up they are found, where they were thrown by the waves, all the dead ones with their shells separated, near to where the rivers fell into the sea, to a great depth; like the Arno which fell from the Gonfolina near to Monte Lupo, where it left a deposit of gravel which may still be seen, and which has agglomerated; and of stones of various districts, natures, and colours and hardness, making one single conglomerate. And a little beyond the sandstone conglomerate a tufa has been formed, where it turned towards Castel Florentino; farther on, the mud was deposited in which the shells lived, and which rose in layers according to the levels at which the turbid Arno flowed into that sea. And from time to time the bottom of the sea was raised, depositing these shells in layers, as may be seen in the cutting at Colle Gonzoli, laid open by the Arno which is wearing away the base of it; in which cutting the said layers of shells are very plainly to be seen in clay of a bluish colour, and various marine objects are found there. And if the earth of our hemisphere is indeed raised by so much higher than it used to be, it must have become by so much lighter by the waters which it lost through the rift between Gibraltar and Ceuta; and all the more the higher it rose, because the weight of the waters which were thus lost would be added to the earth in the other hemisphere. And if the shells had been carried by the muddy deluge they would have been mixed up, and separated from each other amidst the mud, and not in regular steps and layers — as we see them now in our time.”

“A point is not part of a line.”

“A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.”

“A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.”

“Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.”

“There will be many which will increase in their destruction.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.”

“That is not riches, which may be lost; virtue is our true good and the true reward of its possessor. That cannot be lost; that never deserts us, but when life leaves us. As to property and external riches, hold them with trembling; they often leave their possessor in contempt, and mocked at for having lost them.”

“That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.”

“O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.”

“The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.”

“That man is of supreme folly who always wants for fear of wanting; and his life flies away while he is still hoping to enjoy the good things which he has with extreme labour acquired.”

“Painting is concerned with all the ten attributes of sight, namely darkness and brightness, substance and colour, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest; and it is with these attributes that this my small book will be woven, recalling to the painter by what rules and in what way he ought by his art to imitate all things that are the work of nature and the adornment of the world.”

“To 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 things they become noble.”

“The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.”

“A shadow may be infinitely dark, and also of infinite degrees of absence of darkness. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.”

“To manage the large mould make a model of the small mould, make a small room in proportion.”

“Now you see that the hope and the desire of returning home and to one's former state is like the moth to the light, and that the man who with constant longing awaits with joy each new spring time, each new summer, each new month and new year — deeming that the things he longs for are ever too late in coming — does not perceive that he is longing for his own destruction. But this desire is the very quintessence, the spirit of the elements, which finding itself imprisoned with the soul is ever longing to return from the human body to its giver. And you must know that this same longing is that quintessence, inseparable from nature, and that man is the image of the world.”

“Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.”

“I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.”

“The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.”

“In many cases one and the same thing is attracted by two strong forces, namely Necessity and Potency. Water falls in rain; the earth absorbs it from the necessity for moisture; and the sun evaporates it, not from necessity, but by its power.”