Leon Battista Alberti Famous Quotes



"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods."

A man can do all things if he but wills them.


Leon Battista Alberti Quotations






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Good questions outrank easy answers.
Paul A Samuelson

"A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind."
Eric Mascall

Charity sees the need not the cause.
German proverb

"I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key."
Charles Fletcher Lummis

Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Lec

Goodbye cruel world.
Gloria Shayne

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James Barrie

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot

Handguns are a public-health problem.
Josh Sugarmann