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I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Men

A long life is a life well spent.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Long, Wells
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Sensual, Firsts
"The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Lovers
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1980). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Oxford University Press, USA

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Weed, Soil

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Evil
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Men, Thinking

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Useless Things, Acquisition
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, 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

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

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Airplane
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Animal, Men
Codice Atlantico 76 in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Passion
"The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Confusion
Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.9, Oxford University Press

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Distance
Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

Life well spent is long.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Long
Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952)

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Airplane, Science
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

Leonardo da Vinci
Life, Love Is, Towns
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.446, GENERAL PRESS

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