Leonardo Da Vinci Berühmte Zitate
Zitate über Bücher von Leonardo Da Vinci
Tagebücher und Aufzeichnungen, Traktat über die Malerei
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„Wer das Böse nicht bestraft, befiehlt, dass es getan werde.“
Tagebücher und Aufzeichnungen
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„Die Menschen werden jenes Ding verfolgen, vor dem sie am meisten Angst haben.“
Philosophische Tagebücher
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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
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.
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.“
Aforismi, novelle e profezie
Original ital.: "Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro."
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„Wer wenig denkt, der irrt viel.“
Manuskript H, Folio 119
Original ital.: "Chi poco pensa molto erra."
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Variante: Wer wenig denkt, irrt viel.
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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„Die Furcht entsteht viel früher als alles andere.“
Manuskript L, Folio 90
Original ital.: "La paura nasce più tosto che altra cosa."
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„Wer das Leben nicht schätzt, hat es nicht verdient.“
Manuskript I, Folio 15
Original ital.: "Chi non stima la vita, non la merita."
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„Das Wissen ist Kind der Erfahrung.“
Aforismi, novelle e profezie
Original ital.: "La sapienza è figliola della sperienzia."
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„Wer an einem Tag reich werden will, wird in einem Jahr gehängt werden.“
Aforismi, novelle e profezie
Original ital.: "Chi vuol esser ricco in un dì, è impiccato in un anno."
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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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Leonardo Da Vinci: Zitate auf Englisch
“There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
Kontext: There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West; and those of the South, being involved in the course of the winds, will follow them to distant lands.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Kontext: Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present. This nothingness has the part equal to the whole, and the whole to the part, the divisible to the indivisible; and the product of the sum is the same whether we divide or multiply, and in addition as in subtraction; as is proved by arithmeticians by their tenth figure which represents zero; and its power has not extension among the things of Nature.
“Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Kontext: Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body. Shadow is of the nature of darkness. Light is of the nature of a luminous body; one conceals and the other reveals. They are always associated and inseparable from all objects. But shadow is a more powerful agent than light, for it can impede and entirely deprive bodies of their light, while light can never entirely expel shadow from a body, that is from an opaque body.
“The name of man differs in different countries, but his form is never changed but by death.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting
Kontext: The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, which acquires dignity by hearing of the things the eye has seen. If you, historians, or poets, or mathematicians had not seen things with your eyes you could not report of them in writing. And if you, O poet, tell a story with your pen, the painter with his brush can tell it more easily, with simpler completeness and less tedious to be understood. And if you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. Now which is the worse defect? to be blind or dumb? Though the poet is as free as the painter in the invention of his fictions they are not so satisfactory to men as paintings; for, though poetry is able to describe forms, actions and places in words, the painter deals with the actual similitude of the forms, in order to represent them. Now tell me which is the nearer to the actual man: the name of man or the image of the man. The name of man differs in different countries, but his form is never changed but by death.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XV Astronomy
Kontext: The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. And any one standing on the moon, when it and the sun are both beneath us, would see this our earth and the element of water upon it just as we see the moon, and the earth would light it as it lights us.
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
No published occurrence of such an attribution has yet been located prior to one in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — Band 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2411/pg2411.html by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Variante: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
“It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variante: It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
“I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
Variante: While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variante: Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
Variante: Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
