But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.
Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.
simplicity is the best sophistication
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Lust is the cause of generation.
Nature alone is the master of true genius.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
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 soul.
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.
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
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