Leonardo Da Vinci Zitate (394 Zitate, seite 10)

Tagebücher und Aufzeichnungen
Original ital.: "Nessuno effetto è in natura sanza ragione; intendi la ragione e non ti bisogna sperienzia."
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Zitate über Natur von Leonardo Da Vinci

„Ein Maler sollte jede Leinwand mit einem Hauch von Schwarz beginnen, da alle Dinge in der Natur dunkel sind, es sei denn, sie werden dem Licht ausgesetzt.“

Leonardo Da Vinci

„Wenn auch der menschliche Geist durch vielfache Erfindungen mit verschiedenen Instrumenten auf dasselbe Ziel zugeht, nie wird er eine Erfindung machen, die schöner, leichter und kürzer wäre als die Natur.“

Leonardo Da Vinci

Übersetzung: Marianne Schneider
Wörtlicher (und vollständiger): "Obwohl das menschliche Genie in verschiedenen Erfindungen mit verschiedenen Mitteln zu einem und demselben Ziel antwortet, wird es nie eine Erfindung weder schöner, noch leichter, noch kürzer als die der Natur finden, weil in ihren Erfindungen nichts fehlt und nichts überflüssig ist." - 1910/11? http://books.google.de/books?id=vVwXAQAAIAAJ&q=genie
Original: "Anchorachè lo ingiegnio vmano faccia inuentioni varie, rispondendo con uari strumenti a un medesimo fine, mai esso troverà inuentione più bella, né più facile, né più brieue della Natura, perché nelle sue invenzioni nulla manca e nulla è superfluo [...]" - Codex Windsor 19115r, Richter II no. 837 p. 126 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=A7dUhbBfmzMC&pg=PA126.

„Und da ich von unbändigem Verlangen dorthin gezogen wurde, stets begierig, die ungeheure Fülle von allerlei seltsamen Formen zu schauen, welche die findige Natur geschaffen, so gelangte ich, nachdem ich eine Weile zwischen den düsteren Klippen umhergewandert war, zum Eingang einer großen Höhle, vor der ich staunend eine Zeitlang stehenblieb, weil ich nichts davon wußte. Mit gekrümmtem Rücken, die linke Hand auf das Knie gestützt und mit der rechten die gesenkte, gerunzelte Stirn überschattet, beugte ich mich immer wieder vor, bald dahin und bald dorthin, um zu sehen ob drinnen irgend etwas zu unterscheiden sei; aber daran wurde ich gehindert durch das tiefe Dunkel, das dort herrschte. Und nachdem ich eine Weile so davor gestanden hatte, regten sich plötzlich zwei Gefühle in mir, nämlich Furcht und Begierde: Furcht vor der düster drohenden Höhle und Begierde, zu erforschen, ob dort drinnen etwas Wunderbares sei…“

Leonardo Da Vinci

Charles Nicholl: Leonardo da Vinci. Die Biographie. Aus dem Englischen von Michael Bischoff. Frankfurt/M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-16920-7.(S.215)
Original: "E tirato dalla mia bramosa voglia, vago di vedere la gran copia delle varie e strane forme fatte dalla artificiosa natura raggiratomi alquanto infra gli ombrosi scogli, pervenni all’entrata d’una caverna, dinanzi alla quale, restato alquanto stupefatto e ignorante di tal cosa, piegato le mie reni in arco, e ferma la stanca mano sopra il ginocchio e colla destra mi feci tenebre alle abbassate e chiuse ciglia, e spesso piegandomi in qua e in là per vedere dentro, vi discernessi alcuna cosa, e questo vietatomi per la grande oscurità che là entro era. È stato alquanto, subito s’alza in me due cose: paura e desiderio, paura per la minacciosa oscura spelonca, desiderio di vedere se là entro fosse alcuna miracolosa cosa." - Codex Arundel 155r, Richter II no. 1339 Zeile 16-27 p. 395 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=A7dUhbBfmzMC&pg=PA395dq=tirato; englische Übersetzung von Richter auch bei en.wikisource https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_Vinci/XXI.

Leonardo Da Vinci Zitate und Sprüche

„Armselig der Schüler, der seinen Meister nicht übertrifft.“

Leonardo Da Vinci

Aforismi, novelle e profezie
Original ital.: "Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro."
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Über Schule

„Der Augenblick ist zeitlos.“

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„Wer wenig denkt, der irrt viel.“

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Manuskript H, Folio 119
Original ital.: "Chi poco pensa molto erra."
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Variante: Wer wenig denkt, irrt viel.

„Es wird die Zeit kommen, in welcher wir das Essen von Tieren ebenso verurteilen, wie wir heute das Essen von unseresgleichen, die Menschenfresserei, verurteilen.“

Leonardo Da Vinci

zitiert in Claus Leitzmann: Vegetarismus. Grundlagen, Vorteile, Risiken. Verlag C. H. Beck, München 2009, S. 10 http://books.google.de/books?id=-ioq-ZTbeGUC&pg=PA10
Englisch: "[I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and] the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." - angeblich "From da Vinci`s Notes" in Jon Wynne-Tyson: The Extended Circle. A Dictionary of Humane Thought. Centaur Press 1985, p. 65 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1mMbAQAAIAAJ&q=murder.
Tatsächlich ist das "Zitat" nicht auf Leonardo zurückzuführen, sondern auf den historischen Roman Leonardo da Vinci ( Воскресшие боги. Леонардо да Винчи http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8._%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8, 1900) von Dmitri Mereschkowski. Dort heißt es im sechsten Kapitel Tagebuch des Giovanni Boltraffio:
"Der Meister [Leonardo da Vinci] leidet es nicht, daß man einem lebenden Wesen irgendwelchen Schaden zufügt, selbst nicht den Pflanzen. Zoroastro erzählte mir, daß er schon seit seiner frühesten Jugend aus diesem Grunde kein Fleisch genießt: es werde eine Zeit kommen, meine er, da alle Menschen, gleich ihm, sich mit Pflanzenkost begnügen und das Schlachten der Tiere als ein ebenso großes Verbrechen ansehen würden wie den Mord an einem Menschen." - Übersetzt von H. von Hoerschelmann. Berlin, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1935? S. 180 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1MMRT9kmcMYC&pg=PA180
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Über Essen , Zeit , Tiere

„Die Furcht entsteht viel früher als alles andere.“

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Manuskript L, Folio 90
Original ital.: "La paura nasce più tosto che altra cosa."
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„Das edelste Vergnügen ist die Freude am Verstehen.“

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Verstehen , Freude

„Wer das Leben nicht schätzt, hat es nicht verdient.“

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Manuskript I, Folio 15
Original ital.: "Chi non stima la vita, non la merita."
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Über Leben

„Das Wissen ist Kind der Erfahrung.“

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Aforismi, novelle e profezie
Original ital.: "La sapienza è figliola della sperienzia."
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Über Kinder , Wissen

„Wer an einem Tag reich werden will, wird in einem Jahr gehängt werden.“

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Aforismi, novelle e profezie
Original ital.: "Chi vuol esser ricco in un dì, è impiccato in un anno."
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Diese Übersetzung wartet auf eine Überprüfung. Ist es korrekt?

„Derjenige, der wahrhaftig weiß, hat keinen Grund zu klagen.“

Leonardo Da Vinci

„Ich habe Gott und die Menschheit beleidigt, weil mein Werk nicht die Qualität erreichte, die es hätte haben sollen.“

Leonardo Da Vinci

DER SPIEGEL 1/1963 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45142029.html nach Barnaby Conrad: Famous Last Words. Verlag Alvin Redman, London
Zugrunde liegt dem Vasaris Darstellung von Leonardos Tod in den Armen des Königs Franz I., die in korrekter Übersetzung lautet:
"Er [Leonardo] richtete sich ehrfurchtsvoll auf, um im Bett zu sitzen, schilderte ihm sein Übel mit allen Umständen und klagte, daß er gegen Gott und die Menschen gefehlt habe, da er in der Kunst nichts getan hätte, wie es seine Pflicht gewesen wäre."
italienisch: "Egli per reverenza, rizzatosi a sedere sul letto, contando il mal suo e gli accidenti di quello, mostrava tuttavia, quanto aveva offeso Dio e gli uomini del mondo, non avendo operato nell' arte come si conveniva." - Giorgio Vasari: Le vite IV 36 vasari.sns.it http://vasari.sns.it/cgi-bin/vasari/Vasari-all?code_f=print_page&work=le_vite&volume_n=4&page_n=36
Diese Darstellung befand schon Jean Paul Richter 1883 in seiner Ausgabe der Schriften Leonardos für unglaubhaft und offensichtlich erfunden (incredible and demonstrably fictitious legend, Notebooks XIX 1.1 en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_Vinci/XIX), eine Ansicht, der sich 1910 auch Sigmund Freud in seiner Schrift " Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/20Jh/Freud/fre_leo1.html#z04" anschloss.
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Über Gott

„Kein einziger Mensch ist bloß ein verlorenes Teilchen im Weltall. Jeder einzelne Mensch ist von Gott, unserem Vater, geliebt und ihm mit Namen bekannt.“

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Über Universum , Über Gott , Über Menschen

„Es war mir schon lange aufgefallen, dass sich Menschen, die etwas erreicht hatten, selten zurücklehnten und es zuließen, dass ihnen etwas zustieß. Sie sind ausgegangen und sind mit Dingen passiert.“

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Über Menschen

„In der Einfachheit liegt die größte Vollendung“

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„Malen ist Poesie, die man sieht und nicht hört, und Poesie ist ein Malen, das man hört, aber nicht sieht.“

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„Lernen ohne Begierde verdirbt die Erinnerung, und es behält nichts, was es aufnimmt.“

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Lernen , Erinnerung

„Nichts kann geliebt oder gehasst werden, wenn es nicht zuerst verstanden wird.“

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„Man kann keine kleinere oder größere Meisterschaft haben als sich selbst.“

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Leonardo Da Vinci: Zitate auf Englisch

“O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.”

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Of the lightning in clouds.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“When you have drawn the same thing so many times that it seems that you know it by heart try to do it without the model; but having a tracing made of the model upon a thin piece of smooth glass and lay this upon the drawing you have made without the model. …where you find that you have erred bear it in mind in order not to make the mistake again. …if you cannot procure smooth glass to make a tracing… take a piece of very fine parchment well oiled and then dried, and when you have used it for for one drawing you can wipe this out with a sponge and do a second.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

“The painter strives and competes with nature.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting

“One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.”

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"Of fire"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“I know that many will call this useless work.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting

“A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IV Perspective of Disappearance

“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 rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.”

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"Of Water, which flows turbid and mixed with Soil and Dust; and of Mist, which is mixed with the Air; and of Fire which is mixed with its own, and each with each."
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting

“The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting

“Tell me if anything was ever done.”

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This was written in his notebooks in despair of so many projects that were never completed.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.

“Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting

“That part of the air which is nearest to the wing which presses on it, will have the greatest density.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

“I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting

“The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.”

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"In the East wind which rushes to the West"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“One's thoughts turn towards Hope.”

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By the side of this passage is a sketch of a cage with a bird sitting in it.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

“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 is of your folly? and then, with the crowd of sophists, you deceive yourselves and others, despising the mathematical sciences, in which truth dwells and the knowledge of the things included in them. And then you occupy yourself with miracles, and write that you possess information of those things of which the human mind is incapable and which cannot be proved by any instance from nature. And you fancy you have wrought miracles when you spoil a work of some speculative mind, and do not perceive that you are falling into the same error as that of a man who strips a tree of the ornament of its branches covered with leaves mingled with the scented blossoms or fruit.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

“Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.”

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Of a ditch
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth. But we do not go outside human matters in telling of one supreme wickedness, which does not happen among the animals of the earth, inasmuch as among them are found none who eat their own kind, unless through want of sense.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology

“Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion… Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults. Therefore you should be desirous of hearing patiently the opinions of others, and consider and reflect carefully whether or no he who censures you has reason for his censure; and correct your work if you find that he is right, but if not, then let it seem that you have not understood him, or, in case he is a man whom you esteem, show him by argument why it is that he is mistaken.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

“One who by himself is mild enough and void of all offence will become terrible and fierce by being in bad company, and will most cruelly take the life of many men, and would kill many more if they were not hindered by bodies having no soul, that have come out of caverns — that is, breastplates of iron.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.”

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Of Dice
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“It is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

“Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy

“Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.”

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

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Quote is actually from Tom Peters: The Best Corporate Strategy? None, Of Course. Chicago Tribune July 11, 1994 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-07-11/business/9407110026_1_silicon-graphics-customers-richard-branson
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