Tao Te Ching
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519 CE
One of the most talented people to have ever lived, original “Renaissance Man,” father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture; with a passionate curiosity and interest in everything, da Vinci’s genius extended to science, music, mathematics, engineering, painting, architecture, sculpture, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography. Remarkable inventor, mystical pantheist, vegetarian, savior of caged birds, and exemplar of journey-without-goal, he wrote over 5000 pages but didn’t finish one book, many of his commissions, even some of his greatest paintings, and claimed that one of the his most famous paintings, The Mona Lisa was incomplete.
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Artists Humanism Renaissance Scientists
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Western
Renaissance (1304 – 1576 CE)Chinese
Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644 CE)Unlisted Sources
Notebooks, c. 1500
Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci (13 quotes)
“Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution.”
Chapters:
81. Journey Without Goal
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“As a day well spent makes it sweet to sleep, so a life well used makes it sweet to die.”
Chapters:
39. Oneness
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“If you are alone, you are all your own; with a companion you are half yourself.”
Chapters:
42. Children of the Way
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“The truth of things is a supreme food for fine intelligences, but not for wandering wits.”
Chapters:
41. Distilled Life
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“Whoever refers to authorities in disputing ideas works with his memory rather than with his reason.”
Chapters:
38. Fruit Over Flowers
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“Study the art of science… Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
Chapters:
39. Oneness
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“People of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.”
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“In a discussion, when someone cites an authority, they are using memory, not reason.”
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“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind”
from Notebooks, c. 1500
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“Man has great power of speech, but the greater part thereof is empty and deceitful. Animals have little, but that little is useful and true. Better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood.”
from Notebooks, c. 1500
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“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
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Quotes about Leonardo da Vinci (1 quotes)
“Thirty generations passed, and Leonardo da Vinci—spirit made flesh—scratched across his drawings (drawings so beautiful that one catches one's breath with pain on seeing them)... Leonardo failed and died, but life carried on the dream.”
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