The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective
“People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.”
Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 37
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English novelist (1815-1882) 1815–1882Related quotes
from an intervew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xros-DSJquM, 2011
General Quotes
Variant: We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
“And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.”
Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.
I, i, 62; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
“The first-beginnings of things cannot be seen by the eyes.”
Nequeunt oculis rerum primordia cerni.
Book I, line 268 (tr. Munro)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)