The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
“Many ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,”
I, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
Context: Many ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,
protected from the circle of the moon
That pitches common things about.
Bellerophon
Context: Doth some one say that there be gods above?
There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool,
Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you.
Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words
No undue credence: for I say that kings
Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud,
And doing thus are happier than those
Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity
Is built-up from our good and evil luck.
““Fair trade” is a moral delusion that could be leading to an economic catastrophe.”
From The Fair Trade Fraud (St. Martin's Press, 1991) http://www.jimbovard.com/Epigrams%20page%20Fair%20Trade%20Fraud.htm
Collected Poems (1992), When the Watchman Saw the Light (1900)
Context: Of course many people will have much to say.
We should listen. But we won't be deceived
by words such as Indispensable, Unique, and Great.
Someone else indispensable and unique and great
can always be found at a moment's notice.
Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)
“He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”
“So many miracles have not yet happened.”
Source: Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
“So many times I’ve made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.”
#105
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
