"Lust is the cause of generationAppetite is..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
Lust is the cause of generationAppetite is the support of lifeFear or timidity is the prolongation of life, andFraud the preservation of its instruments.
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“A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.”
“The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.”
“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”
More on Philosophy
“All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.”
“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?”
“I have just got a new theory of eternity.”
More on Human Nature
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
“Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.”
“Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.”