"There is nothing which deceives us as..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”

“The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.”

“He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.”

“Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.”

“We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.”

“All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.”

“The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.”

“Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.”

“The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.”