Leonardo da Vinci Says: “As you cannot do what…”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do.”
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Leonardo da Vinci Says: “An artist’s studio should…”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “An artist’s studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “A diamond is just…”
Leonardo da Vinci Says: “A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “When the suffering of another…”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her…
Leo Tolstoy Says: “We can know only that we know…”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “Vegetarianism serves as the…”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “There can be only one permanent…”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “There can be only one permanent revolution – a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels…
Leo Tolstoy Says: “The truth is obtained like…”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “The struggle with evil by…”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “The sole meaning of life is…”
Leo Tolstoy Says: “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”