Philosophy Quote by Leonardo da Vinci — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Who sows virtue reaps honour.”

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”

“Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?”

“Life Looks Lasting by Stewart Stafford”

“Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”

“In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.”

“We shouldn’t use ‘should’ too much.”

“…let us point out precisely the difficulties of empiricism as a theory of knowledge. First, it begins with two”