Quotes of: Leonardo-da-vinci Keyword

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

Stoner

Humans are actually spirit beings who each possess a mind and a body and what we do with them is entirely up to us.

Spirituality - Gathered Inspirational Thoughts

Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.

The Sun Will Still Shine Tomorrow

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Philosophical Investigations

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Politics

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

Politics

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Poetics

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.

Poetics

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

Put That in Writing

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

Q & A

I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

Q & A

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

Q & A

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

Q & A

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

Ruined City

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus