3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
