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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Men, Virtue
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.493, GENERAL PRESS

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Leonardo da Vinci
Animal, Space, Receiving
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.331, GENERAL PRESS

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Blessed

In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.

Leonardo da Vinci
Doubt, Gold, Causes

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

Leonardo da Vinci
Light, Originals
"Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists".

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Leonardo da Vinci
Broken, Black, Capacity

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Leonardo da Vinci
Errors, Facts, Perceive
Leonardo da Vinci, John Sidney Hawkins (1802). “A treatise on painting. To which is prefixed a new life of the author, by J.S. Hawkins”, p.203

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Leonardo da Vinci
Animal, Men, Looks

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci
Animal, Reality, Men
Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.45, Lulu.com

Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Mistake, Tests, Be Prepared

For youth, everything is sport.

Leonardo da Vinci
Sports, Youth

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

Leonardo da Vinci
Color, Yellow, White

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

Leonardo da Vinci
Ambition, Suffering, Ambitious
Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.24, Lulu.com

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci
Memories, Integrity, Patriotic
"The Book of Unusual Quotations" by Rudolf Flesch, (p. 12), 1957.

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives.

Leonardo da Vinci
Lovers, Perceive
Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

Leonardo da Vinci
Art, Sex, Actors
Dell' Anatomia Fogli B (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. III)

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Leonardo da Vinci
Years, Dying, Littles

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

Leonardo da Vinci
Doubt, Littles, Achieve
Robert Byrd, Leonardo (da Vinci) (2003). “Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer”, Dutton Books for Young Readers

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Ignorant, Excellence

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Science, Law
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci
Age, Old Age, Nourishment

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
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

Leonardo da Vinci
Animal, One Day, Looks

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