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Human Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot…
- The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the…
- How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
- No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
- The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can…
- One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
- Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
- The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
- The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
- No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
- The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.
- The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the…
- O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where…
- I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and…
- The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest…
- The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- 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…
- average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance,…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong