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Quotes from Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci — Paul Valéry

1871–1945 France

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci (1895)

Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.

Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci (1895)

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