The spirit desires to remain
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
– Leonardo Da Vinci
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- Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- To discover the soul living in somebody’s body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it’s messy and disordered, so is the soul. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish… because it draws water as its breath instead of air. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body… for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul. – Leonardo Da Vinci
- Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. – Leonardo Da Vinci