“Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Varianta: Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
“Every instrument requires to be made by experience.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.”
Of the Tongues of Pigs and Calves in Sausage-skins.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
“The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
“The Medici created and destroyed me.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
"Of Selling Paradise"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective
“Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
“He who offends others, does not secure himself.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), VII On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure
“Tristo é lo discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.”
Codex Forster III, 66 v
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
“Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
Varianta: Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.