Leonardo da Vinci Thoughts
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
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.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.