Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.
Leonardo da VinciYou will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Leonardo da VinciTag: self-mastery discipline will-power
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Leonardo da VinciTag: wisdom
He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.
Leonardo da VinciAll our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.
Leonardo da VinciThe painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Leonardo da VinciThe time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
Leonardo da VinciTag: animal-rights
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
Leonardo da VinciTag: art nature providence
Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da VinciHe is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.
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