Leonardo da Vinci vs. Aristotle
Read 20 entries attributed to Leonardo da Vinci alongside 20 attributed to Aristotle. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Leonardo da Vinci alongside 20 attributed to Aristotle. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: ethics, human nature, life, philosophy, art, knowledge. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #119: "Up Lake Como towards Germany is the Chavenna Valley where the River Mera") enters the lake. Here are barren and very high mountains with large rocks ... In these mountains the wat…"
Attributed to Aristotle, entry #3: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Recorded year: 340 BCE.
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Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci (1452) was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance — painter, scientist, engineer, mathematician, and writer.
"Up Lake Como towards Germany is the Chavenna Valley where the River Mera") enters the lake. Here are barren and very high mountains with large rocks ... In t…"
#Ethics"Su per lago di Como di ver Lamagnia (Alemagna, cioè Germania) è valle di Ciavenna dove la Mera fiume mette in esso lago. Qui si truova montagni sterili e alt…"
#Science"Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so …"
#Science"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or…"
#Aesthetics"3 miglia più in là si trova li edifici della vena del rame e dello argento, presso una terra detta Pra Santo Petro e vene di ferro e cose fantastiche. ( Anci…"
#Science"The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience..."
#Epistemology"3 miles further on are the buildings of the vein of copper and silver, near a land called Prato San Pietro and veins of iron and fantastic things. (paper F.573)"
#Science"Fa vini potenti e assai, … e ‘l vino vale el più uno soldo il boccale e la libbra della vitella un soldo e ‘l sale 10 dinari, e ‘l simile il burro, ed è la l…"
#Science"As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long."
#Human Nature"truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. ( Ancient Italian)"
#Science"Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street..."
#Science"Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil...."
#Religion"He makes powerful and very strong wines, … and the wine is worth more than a penny per jug and the pound of veal a penny and the salt 10 denarii, and so is t…"
#Science"All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rush…"
#life"Seeing that I can find no subject specially useful or pleasing — since the men who have come before me have taken for their own every useful or necessary the…"
#philosophy"Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man."
#war"To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason."
#love"The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection."
#art"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
#life"Oh! human stupidity, do you not perceive that, though you have been with yourself all your life, you are not yet aware of the thing you possess most of, that…"
#knowledgeAristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings span philosophy, science, and rhetoric.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
#Politics340 BCE
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
#Ethics340 BCE
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
#Human Nature"The essential nature cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having contro…"
#nature"朴素使未受教育的人在面对大众演讲时比受过教育的人更有成效。It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
#life"For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought …"
#justice"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize; they wondered originally at the obvious difficulties, then advanc…"
#wisdom"Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and es…"
#nature"[U]niversal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense..."
#philosophy"Men ... are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing th…"
#friendship"It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it."
#knowledge"For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing."
#knowledge"Hope is a waking dream."
#hope"...suppose α without weight, but β possessing weight; and let α pass over space γδ, but β in the same time pass over a space γε,—for that which has weight wi…"
#art"The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aristotle.."
#philosophy"It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the…"
#philosophy"The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he i…"
#nature